My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.

What I really like to learn how to do is to build sentences that are equal to mental states.

When you're sure of what you're looking at, look harder.

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

The job of taste was to thin the insane torrent of human creativity down to manageable levels. But the job of appetite was never to be happy with taste.

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

The use of music is to remind us how short a time we have a body.

I feel happy and hearty grateful.

If political authority is not limited, the division of powers, ordinarily the guarantee of freedom, becomes a danger and a scourge.

Nine out of ten introverts agree: The telephone is the tool of the devil.

I was a multi-millionaire from playing hockey. Then I got divorced, and now I'm a millionaire.

I think my life is tremendously interesting, and surely, other people do too.

[In politics,] when there is no reason to speak, there is a reason not to speak.

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

Sid Vicious is a thinking man's wrestler!

If you don't have time, you don't have priorities.

The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .