I was always lucky in my bad luck.

He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax.

It's interesting how young poets think of death while old fogies think of girls.

No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.

I pop a beautiful sentence into my mouth and suck it like a fruit drop.

To spend our days betting on three-legged horses with beautiful names

I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.

He was a gentle and sensitive soul, and therefore had a short temper, which is why he went straight after everything with an ax...

The closest one person can get to another is through silence.

You can’t rid yourself of freedom the way you’d rid yourself of lice, brother.

Writing is a defence against boredom, but it's also a cure for melancholy.

Who can be worried without the light of a memory?

Dear Governor Whitman, … Our father is not a simple criminal. … He was harassed by more ideas than his mind could stand. …

All I know is that I'm a sinner and that God has forgiven me of my sins. Because I put my faith and trust in Jesus Christ.

There is no weather in malls.

we have become masters of projection—pushing the responsibility for our own thoughts outward so that the consequences of our thoughts become someone else's problem.

The people who get hurt in a falling market are the ones who need to sell as it's falling.

It is not how many years we live, but what we do with them.

Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic Church.

Geometry was the first exciting course I remember.

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.