Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing

Love is a very compelling argument.

We don't have a single point of view for a road at all, except a moving one, moving along it.

Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it.

A disciplined mind brings happiness.

Information, if viewed from the point of view of food, is never a production issue. ... It's a consumption issue, and we have to start thinking about how we create diets [and] exercise.

I have a lot of memories of Falls Church. I went to grade school in Madison Elementary School.

Of course, there are always going to be some unsettled areas, but for me the overall evidence for Christianity chases away any real doubt that it's true.

We like annoying people. It's a Manchester thing. It's a trait. We just like pissing people off.

What is life when living without the Lifemaker?