Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you can be.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art, like album-cover design, without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Popular culture no longer craves archangels and new dawns. Pop culture traffics in vampires and deads of night.

At 'The Village Voice,' there were all these fevers inside the offices, that would break out into full-scale rumbles between writers.

With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for a shameless, position-shifting phony he seemed a trifle insincere.

God created human beings in his own likeness.

I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.

Sometimes the answer we need is in our heart. We just have to listen to it.

Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking.

I’m still afraid of being totally honest. I’m more afraid of this than dying.

Loyalty... A will, a decision, a resolution of the soul.

We demand that the government of Canada force Stockwell Day to change his first name to Doris. "Why do this," you may ask? Because it'll be fun.

Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.

My love is deep; the more I give to thee, the more I have, both are infinite.