I can't stomach any kind of notion that serious fiction is good for us, because I don't believe that everything that's wrong with the world has a cure.

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

The God that we commonly know may be less sinister than the true God that we don't know for sure.

Know from root to fruit

There is a possibility of economic growth through honesty and truth.

More than half of our history is lost, not because they were not documented, but they had no guardians and protectors.

Knowledge and the study of God's Word is voided by the folding of unwilling hands.

People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.

Let truth be a banner big enough to hide the man who holds it up.

Not so easy, Mr Lennon. Even if you try.

The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.