Every book was a door

There is nothing worse than certainty. Doubt makes us weak. That is why it’s so important. I’ve wasted too much of my life trying to be powerful.

The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.

The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.

If you're at an award ceremony, you're against your mates.

I like my nuts," Mooner said. "I don't want them cut off. I'd be, like, nutless then.

I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey

The road before us is shorter than the road behind.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

I look for people who have drive, who have ambition, who are humble. Ive hired many people at very strange places.

We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.