It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.

You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.

In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you.

We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.

What isn't said is as important as what is said.

Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.

A society manufactures the heroes it requires.

Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.

The day we serve humanity, as we serve our mothers, we shall find Allah.

Different cities visit us daily, they exist in the clouds.

I have achieved an inner freedom.

But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.

The skeptics who say it can't be done are simply in extremely limited states of mind. They can't even perceive the possibility of anybody doing something that they can't do.

I know enough football to know that's funny!

There is no armor against fate.

The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it.

Sports Illustrated is very serious about their covers. They'll never say, like, 'Oh you got it.'

love, is an unnatural attachment to another living thing. it's the root cause of most personal problems people have.