I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.

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.

Doubt is a form of pessimism that acts as an agent, which is sent to hinder prosperity on its materilization journey.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world

Trials teach us what we are.

There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous.

Women are not forgiven for aging.

When I met Paul Ryan 22 years ago, he was a student at Miami of Ohio volunteering on my campaign.

I was inspired to create 'My Life' so I could finally share a personal part of my life beyond my music.

I was too busy doing my job and living my life to spend time keeping notes for some future volume of memoirs.

Only by knowledge of that which is not thyself, shall thyself be learned.