He thought it might be the most intimate thing possible, to fall asleep next to someone in the afternoon.

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?

What business does memory have with time?

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

I dwell on great thoughts.

I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.

Vanity rather than wisdom determines how the world is run.

That day I swore to never manipulate anyone again. Even if I believed I was doing good--for who am I to presume what is good for others?

A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.

The New Englanders, by their canting, whining and insinuating tricks, have persuaded the rest of the colonies that the government is going to make absolute slaves of them.

Western laziness consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

Sunglasses always hide a multitude of sins. Sunglasses and a great pair of heels can turn most outfits around.

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.