I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic.

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

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

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.

May the broken hearted be healed.

There’s always a reason to look up.

Nonchalant putts count the same as chalant putts.

I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account.

I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book

One of the things about animation is it's so expensive to do the animation, that you can't produce coverage. You only have one chance to make every shot.

Everything that shines ain't always gonna be gold

Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I started making up a world where my needs wouldn´t exist at all.

I live in a tough neighborhood. They got a children's zoo. Last week, four kids escaped.

If you say you're fat, all of a sudden people like you!