My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.

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.

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.

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

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

I would die for you, my love—in old age.

The world of fantasy can always blindfold. Had I know is a gateway to the realities of life

I wanted to grab his stupid ears and smash his stupid head against the door until his stupid brains leaked out. Instead, I did nothing.

Because connection with others and our "best self" is the most primal need we have, shame feels absolutely awful.

The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best.

Do what makes you happy, think later.

Andrew Keen was so typically brilliant and entertaining at LeWeb 2007 that we booked him for Le Web 2009.

No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.