Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.

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.

There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

Good communication may not make a risky deal safe, but poor communication may sell benefits of a good deal.

The fact that immorality is rampant throughout the nation doesn’t make it right!

Just because you are on a path to damnation, doesn’t mean you’re going to get there. Be willing to change your travel plans.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

I like the Beatles. They're at the core of my musicality. And John Lennon's my spiritual father.

We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all.

In designing a lifestyle brand, you have to know more than just designing clothes.

I think we will become disenchanted with the glamour of globalization.

I don't smoke, drink alcohol well, or play games. But I watch dramas. It is hard to quit.