It's funny; in this era of e-mail and voice mail and all those things that even I did not grow up with, a plain old paper letter takes on amazing intimacy.

It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

The heart does not go backward. Only the mind.

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

The problem is simply finding the right person. Ask Plato. Just make sure she finishes your thoughts and you finish hers. That's all you need.

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

...History it seemed could be something entirely different a splash of blood whose agony didn't fade overnight or over centuries.

There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

Is there a particular way of looking at your love?” she asked.…..Yes… The way you look at me.

ex-girlfriends are like car wrecks. You shouldn't want to know the details but you just do

Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.

I don't know. Both my parents are dead. So? Wait, I got pictures of their corpses in my wallet. I had them blown up as murals. Here.

When things are going wrong declare constantly that you are not going to be afraid or intimidated by any outer condition.

Relationships can be about yourself, they can be about you and your god, you and your people, you and your family. It can be about a lot of different stuff. And it is.

Hell changes constantly but there are certain consistent landmarks which always stay in the same relation to one another.

If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.

Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.

I'm ready to see that new RZA movie [The Man With The Iron Fists] too, it looks kind of Tarantino-ish.