Every golden age is as much a matter of disregard as of felicity.

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.

If one is destined to go wrong, he will not believe the truth but will believe something else altogether.

May you find the might, the power within you, to eagerly reach out to your dreams.

Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.

Ability and luck makes success happen, no matter what the circumstances are.

Lack and limitation can only exist when we make room for them in our mind

Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.

I think kids in general are much more capable of understanding the idea of being transgender than adults.

My children are still young, but I try to talk to them about giving back and how important it is, just to look at the world, be invested in things, to be passionate about things, to have a dream.

Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits.

They're getting crazier every day, the whole world's going crazy. And you got to take your mind out to keep your smile in place.