Novels are about men and women and children and dogs, not politics.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.

What was worse, he couldn't tell her how much he thought he maybe might kinda sorta love her.

The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure.

Politics is history in the making.

Being a husband is a whole time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.

I never kissed my father until he was on his death bed.

Never apologize for being nerdy.

For memory is a moral action, a choice. You can choose to remember. You can choose not.

Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself.

The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss.