I'm not a reporter but the 'New Yorker' treats everyone like a reporter.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

Believing in God is great, getting obsessed with it is the problem

You must make the Journey along the road, nobody is able to do it for you!

There's something more to life than what we see on the surface.

Porcupine, whom one must Handle, glove'd, May be Respected, but is never Loved.

My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.

Mother Nature is a relentless ruthless killer. She don't give a damn if you get home to your family.

The most interesting thing about change in the environment is that for the most part the environment isn't changing.

And the most important thing you can do is learn to edit yourself. And then go back and rewrite.

I don't have many expenses as a college student (mostly food) so I'm able to put advertising revenue right back into the production of new videos.

You are like a hurricane, there's calm in your eyes, and I'm getting blown away.