In a thousand years, Fred, no one will even know or care we existed.

Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.

Consciousness is the chronic pain of life, and all higher organisms suffer it every waking moment.

Capitalism was a marvel, as long as you were a capitalist.

Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid, and most assertive members of civilized society.

No matter what you do and how you do it, you will always be criticized. Do it anyway.

Loneliness is a crowded room, Full of open hearts turned to stone, All together all alone

The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.

I really love to drive. It’s really hard for me to be a passenger, even though I get to look around a little bit more, but I’ve gotten really good at driving and looking.

I have always tended toward a lush prose style, but I take care to modulate it from story to story and to strip it down entirely when necessary.

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.

I didn't save you," he whispers, lips tickling my eyelashes. "You saved me.

It's what's available to the poor communities. They do buy healthy stuff, you know, but the lettuce is usually iceberg lettuce and to get any taste, they have to use all that ranch dressing.

The forgotten man... He works, he votes, generally he prays, but his chief business in life is to pay.