Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours.

I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our hard-won marriage represents.

Marriage: a deeply peculiar and ultimately unkind thing to inflict on anyone one claims to care for.

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

I'll come out with policy on that and make on the future.

In the true spirit of the holidays, let the darkness of your moods lead you back up to the light, and when New Year's rolls around, your resolution will be tinged with new authenticity and power.

I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner, where you just sit and feel comfortable.

A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.

Given the choice between a Republican and someone who acts like a Republican, people will vote for the real Republican all the time

No, Michael, I do not trust you on a boat, I do not trust you on a goat. I do not trust you here. I do not trust you there. I do not trust you anywhere.

Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories. One side is the good one. The other one is evil.

That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.