I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

The essentially unchangeable established order of things, slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely...

Those North Korean hackers are at it again. Earlier today they leaked Santa's naughty list.

Do the steps that you've been shown, by everyone you've ever known, until the dance becomes your very own.

No broken hearts, no broken necks.

We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.

In terms of scope, and in terms of sheer number of characters, we went beyond our limits long ago.

As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.

Oblivion is not to be hired.

At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.

If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.