People don't like it when you say real things.

No matter how far I try to travel from people, people always appear. Either they follow me, or they're already there, and I followed them, unwittingly.

In the face of immense tragedy—yet again—unexpected beauty.

How easy to be electrocuted. How fine the line between beauty and peril.

I love that an idea can be so powerful it doesn't matter whether I've seen the artwork for real or not.

Now I wonder if each artwork is in fact utterly inaccessible to everybody but the person to whom it is secretly addressed?

Art, and sadness, which last forever.

Blending into the tinctures and textures of the countryside. The tree which falls without any human hearing still falls, as the creatures who die without being found by a human still die.

I see foxes often, but always they are crossing fallow fields in the distance. Gold flecks on faraway expanses of green. Magnetic to the meandering eye. Enigmatic, unreachable.

I decided that if I didn't allow myself to fall asleep, then I wouldn't have to wake up again and despair.

My mother says: 'People who suffer from anxiety are usually those with the most vivid imaginations.

It isn't about love, " Vee said. "It's about fun.

I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.

Saying of the ProphetOppressionWhen oppression exists, even the bird dies in its nest.

Each day we do the best we can, and then tomorrow we try again!

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

I've lived to see key parts of my research absorbed in textbooks and in central banks around the world. And some finance ministries, too.

The problem is the people who tend to be the best organized are the most radical and the most vicious.

It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

There is no particular reason to search for meaning.

The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts.