No one who is good can ever be ugly.

When you depart from this world, you must have the confidence that you have left your footprints in the sands of time, that you were among those who fulfilled their purpose

The future belongs to those who live intensely in the present.

We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this is common sense.

Anything outside marriage seems like freedom and excitement.

My weak suit is whatever each reader hates about each book.

There is no more dramatic proof of the death of the Left than the passage of its central vision - global democratic revolution - into the hands of those who call themselves conservatives.

Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.

Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically cool getting kind of uncool. So that ruins what I feel about jazz.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.

You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.