Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

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.

I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.” Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.

Pursue your heart's deep driving desires with joy and love.

Watch out for what people commend you for and do it diligently. Don’t stop if compliments no longer come.

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

An Underground Railroad story with a distinctive flavor. –Booklist

...centre of the centre, the real heart of Christianity as it has been until now.

A good conscience is never lawless in the worst regulated state, and will provide those laws for itself which the neglect of legislators had forgotten to supply.

Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.

I'm probably so out of it at my age that I don't know what people think.

The most delightful aspect about the language of cinema is that it speaks to each of us in different ways - it is a purely subjective experience.

When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.