I started appreciating and valuing different things. Some things just became insufferable to me, and not just literature. I used to like horror movies and now I couldn't stand them.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

I may have made a straight A in physics, but I was panic-struck. Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it.

The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.

How can you ennoble the spirit when you are selling something as inconsequential as a face cream?

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan

A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

The Bush boom is alive and well. It's finishing up its sixth splendid year with many more years to come.

It is much easier to bury a problem than to solve it.

We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer.

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.

Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.