A book is kind because its pages let us know when it is coming to an end.

I like ghosts. I like friends. I like couplets. I like the idea of a mission.

On your quest to spirituality it is often required to suspend your rationality but true spirituality asks that you enhance your rationality.

But then I realize that even if I did have a soul, it’s not as though someone else would be there. It would only be more of me.

Looking at her is like looking up at a sky full of stars. You don’t know what you’ll see today, but you know it’ll still be breathtaking.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because people prefer the marvels of romances to the simplicity of history.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

There are some writers who also enjoy being authors, and are good at it as well. There is nothing performative about writing, but there is about being a writer.

I'm not a movie person. They're collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.

The second noble truth says that this resistance is the...mechanism of what we call ego, that resisting life causes suffering.

Intellectual activity is perhaps the greatest pleasure of life; chess is one of the forms of intellectual activity.