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

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.

I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.” Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.

The difficulties and challenges in your life are the lessons you need to learn to grow and development.

The Marxist thus finds himself in real agreement with the Christian in those two beliefs which Christianity paradoxically demands - that poverty is blessed and yet ought to be removed.

Nobody has ever been beyond his own Illusion of Life.

To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.

If nobody cares, then it doesn't matter what happens to flowers.

Now is a time for change, a time to become the greatest version of yourself. And a time to to make your grandest vision of the world .

Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them.

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.

Forget you are a man. Loose the animal you hide inside.

Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers won't quit.