And like an aviator who rolls painfully along the ground until, abruptly, he breaks away from it, I felt myself being slowly lifted towards the silent peaks of memory.

For every death is a simplification of existence for the others, removes the necessity to show gratitude, the obligation to pay visits.

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself.

But it is always easy to put together stories about a past which nobody any longer remembers, like those about journeys to countries where nobody has ever been.

The beauty of images lies behind things, the beauty of ideas in front of them.

Ideas are substitutes for sorrows...

...pretention is very close to stupidity and that simplicity has a less visible but still gratifying aspect.

Her eyes were the color of whiskey and grace. Moments with her always felt like getting drunk on Sundays.

Religion has to be protected

There is only one reason of YOUR failure..'You

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.

Want to get your kids to read more? Try making books easily accessible. Put them where kids can easily reach and don't make them off limits. (within reason)

Being a team player should not imply a demand for simple obedience and conformity.

You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature.

What is written is more influential than what is said.

It's not listed in the Bible, but my spiritual gift, my specific calling from God, is to be a television talk-show host.