Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning.

Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.

Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.

It’s a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.

Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me, acknowledge me. It didn’t seem so dangerous at the time.

Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?

I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he were misplaced. As if he could just turn up, like a sock or a set of keys.

...like a small stone deflected off a larger one, my brother had spun off toward the Almighty, though to my mind the events of that morning could just as well have cast him the other way.

The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that’s only if you’re very lucky. And you listen very hard.

I was raised to be ashamed of my ignorance, and to try to do something about it if at all possible.

I suspect that on some level, life is a matter of indefensible loyalties.

The key to abundance is acceptance. The more you expect, the less you accept.

I grew up in the limelight and being the child of someone famous. So my relationship with fame is not bedazzled.

There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age 11.

I want to be good at what I do, obviously, and to do that I need to keep my head straight.

At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silence pulse of perfect rhythm which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything else.

If I only had 24 hours to live, I would spend the time telling everybody I love that I love them.

I like the idea of the adventurer's spirit. I think that is very much what a man searches for, in a certain way.

Most people I run into say, I haven't missed an episode. Either you like Survivor or you don't, but if you do, you're a loyal viewer.

I belonged to Stratford Children's Theater when I was a boy growing up in Manchester. Even then, I was always doing character parts.

Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won?