Do what you gotta do and stay fly

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises.

Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.

My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.

Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.

If consultants followed their own advice, they wouldn't tell anyone.

We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past.

The only thing that can cause your body to hurt in your energy processing centers, [chakras] is when you are losing Spirit through one of them.

I've qualified second I don't know how many times. Qualifying isn't my strong suit.

I write plays instinctively. I don't like writing movie scripts.

Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently its the most difficult thing in the world.

Which is both gross and breathtakingly romantic. He could always have just gone upstairs and brushed his teeth, but he stayed and lurked by the fish for me.

The most visible symbol in New York is the spirit of a free people.

Our Father in Heaven needs you to be who you are. ... You are very important.