Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge.

Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something.

In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away.

I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.

Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.

People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour.

Don't forget to support your public library.

To be an artist, you're basically a crazy person. You're extremely narcissistic and emotionally expressive. The idea that the world needs to listen to you is an insane thought.

We are also ignoring and underfunding high speed rail which is one of the best ways to move citizens and improve congestion on our highways.

Why, he wondered, should he remember her suddenly, on such a day, watching the rain falling on the apple trees?

Do you ever just want to take your car out onto the highway and gun the engine as fast as you can and then close your eyes and see what happens?

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

I've always sort of wondered: If everyone else's opinion is what matters, then do you ever really have one of your own?

I think even Republicans are saying [Andrew] Puzder may have a problem.

Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It's also for people who you think of as reprehensible.