If you can get by with quotes from The Godfather and nothing you say matters, that's pretty bleak, don't you think? Don't we want what we say to matter?

I know what to do with my life. I just don't know what to do with this one night.

To conform is to lose your soul

It is forgivable to say nothing out of ignorance; it's inexcusable to remain silent once awareness dawns.

All broken hearts are circumstantial. Every lovelorn jerk is the victim of bad timing, good intentions, and someone else’s poor decision making.

I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership.

We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.

It is really irritating to work with irritating people

The main questions of everyday life are too enormous to answer in any definitive sense.

I wake up every day in order to do something that's quixotic, and not necessarily called for in the world, but I do it because there's extraordinary meaning for me behind the effort.

My first job is to write a book that I believe is compelling and deserves the long sustained attention that any novel requires, and to worry about the commerce only late in the game.

When your world seems like falling apart, an inspiration is something you can always hold on to.

There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

I heard the news today, oh boy.

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

I want to invest in hard-working families.

I've dominated a majority of my opponents. Very few people I only win against. Most of the time it's pretty one-sided. That's success to me.

There is a desire deep within the soul which drives man from the seen to the unseen, to philosophy and to the divine.

The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens.

The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.

I'm trying to escape by forming my own kind of world. Basically, I'm trying to encourage others to do the same.