Love and honesty don’t mix.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Of all the idiots I have met in my life and the Lord knows that they have not been few or little I think that I have been the biggest.

I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.

The chicken is a dinosaur. I mean, it really is. You can't argue with it, because we're the classifiers and we've classified it that way.

In a recent interview, Hillary Clinton said that one of the jobs that prepared her to be president was sliming fish in Alaska. As opposed to Bill, who learned by catching crabs in Cancun.

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

In the New Testament church it says they were all amazed - And now in our churches everybody wants to be amused.

I am far more comfortable with failure than I ever will be with success.