Fiction is meant to illuminate, to explode, to refresh.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.

The mind is like tofu. It tastes like whatever you marinate it in.

In a society run by terror, no statements whatsoever can be taken seriously. They are all forced, and it is the duty of every honest man to ignore them.

The old attitude toward newspapers was that they were completely disposable - today's newspaper is tomorrow's fish wrap.

To wake up in the morning and just know what I'm going to wear, it helps me get out of the house faster.

Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.

If you do the math, films featuring women are a good investment.

Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody.

It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

I took a baby shower.

Technology is for us. All of us. People who carry things.