If ideas are what feed serious literature and arresting language, who today is writing a novel of ideas (which can often mean comedy)? I think of Joshua Cohen. Who else?

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

When you touch the moon with beloved eyes, you behold a glimpse of an amazing life.

It's difficult to overcome what you're getting beamed into your brain by the television every day. The worthlessness of journalism today is just making the country confused and bewildered and lost.

If all you can do is judge a person by their appearance, because you don't have the spirit to judge someone from within, you're in trouble.

An artist paints his own reality.

If you reach for something and find out it's the wrong thing, you change your program and move on.

All men are liars, said Roberta Muldoon, who knew this was true because she had once been a man.

I didn’t know what I was going to say, a feeling that was compounded when the line clicked open and Trent’s very muzzy voice murmured, “Rachel? Mmm, hi.

I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity.