In any case, it is not love, but friendship, that truly eludes you.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises.

Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.

My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.

Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

Even the right is wrong from the other side.

Willmore: There is no sinner like a young saint.

I am not warm. That is why my sister chose the name Winter for me.

I'm hugely self-critical in the morning.

In measuring a circle, one begins anywhere.

After years of doing it, you learn the difference between your ego and your opinion. When you're married you have to cut through that.

I think chemistry is finding something you love about a person and then transfering it to an in love kind of thing.

It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking.