As you grow older, you'll find that you enjoy talking to strangers far more than to your friends.

Of course there is nothing that cannot be done incorrectly.

A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.

You must stop worrying about why things happen and wonder what they mean when they do.

The story knows itself better than the writer does at some point, knows what's being said before the writer figures out how to say it.

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.

Words at night were feral things.

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

One writes to find words' meanings.

There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of humor and threat and significance, deep significance.

Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.

In any relationship, after the first year is over, you can't help but want your own space.

The club continued to make significant player decisions without involving me. In the end such a breach of trust and confidence meant that I had no option but to leave.

Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.

There's always an added element of a poem when it's read aloud because then you can really hear the rhythm, and the cadence, and even the pronunciation sometimes adds another layer to the poem.

From experience I can say that we can make our nation corruption free. Only promises won't help...Irade Nek Hone Chahiye.

I started doing standup when I was in college, and I would incorporate a lot of characters into my act.

The fact that Obama is getting criticism from the left and the right might reflect his understanding of the underlying political dynamics.

It's just too bad we can't have an epidemic of botulism.

It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.