I don't have all the facts. And I might misremember. As a matter of fact, after I finished Winter Journal, I realized that I'd gotten someone's name wrong.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.

Stay in your lane.

Nobody has ever measured even poets how much a heart can hold.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

I play to represent God, something bigger than baseball.

Debauchery conceived of as a kind of ascetic experience is not new, either for men or for women, but until Story of O no woman to my knowledge had said it.

God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.

To learn to live from the heart it doesn't just change our feeling about life, it actually changes our life.

When you're a student and you just want some money to feel like you're an adult, you'll pretty much do anything within reason.

When that second airplane hit the building, we all changed. We need to get back to some serious thinking.