No; he could be ruined again and again by hope, but he would never be capable of belief.

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.

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

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.

Pity those who don't feel anything at all.

Concentrate on the road ahead, not on the road behind!

I am not responsible for what another man thinks. I do claim responsibility for helping another man think

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

As far as just my stand-up is concerned, I don't care about changing anyone's mind. I'm not making an argument. I'm a guy doing comedy.

The length of one's days matters less than the love of one's family and friends.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.

I feel like I've always been a full-time historian, but nobody knows it.