For every reader who dies today, a viewer is born, and we seem to be witnessing . . . the final tipping balance.

I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

Someone who is self assured celebrates the accomplishments of others.

Jolly felt salty tears on her lips, and for the first time in her life it occurred to her that sorrow tasted exactly like the sea.

I think the bravest people are not the ones brave enough to die. But the ones brave enough to live.And living is different with surviving.

A man with a golden gun may have a ruthless heart & may have a golden Heart too

Hope is the one positive force to help us persevere during our darkest storms. Jesus gives us hope when He walks beside us through the fiery furnace and helps us rise above adversity.

I'm a prankster, so some of the - you know, I like a good joke. I think when it's funny, it's funny.

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

I am trapped in this body, and there is nothing I can do about it.

Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way.

The moral case for individual initiative in a free economy holds that people have a God-given right to use their creativity to produce things that improve our lives.