Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.

Love and honesty don’t mix.

Oh, sweetheart. What can anyone do? That's just the way things are. You really think you can change the world?

I transform fiction into memory.

Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.

Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we’ll be.

Mediate on the Scripture to nourish your soul.

The beauty of life depends on how you respond not in how true you answer.

The success gate is far at the end of the long failure corridor. Keep moving no matter how many potholes you step into. You will get there with time!

There's no way that moving in with your parents is a sign that your life is on track.

A successful work will draw out the features capable of exciting a sense of beauty and interest in the spectator.

The smoking gun is that we're interviewing somebody who is involved in a cybercrime and not calling him a criminal.

I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.

What is American strategy first of all? So American strategy is to command the seas, right? The foundation of our power is sea control. Nobody can invade us, but we can invade them.

Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.

Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others.