Popularity has become its own justification.

I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Business Plans: It's about the Process, Not the Product

If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy.

I am really not interested in the cinema. I loathed it when I started six years ago, and I don't enjoy it even now.

My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.

I do not agree that NIMBYism is wrong morally. I believe that NIMBYism is wrong ethically. It's a personal choice.

I've been in favor of getting rid of carried interest for years, starting when I was a senator from New York.

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

The theological systems of men and schools of men are determined always by the character of their ideal of Christ, the central fact of the Christian system.

Love is a circle that doth restless move in the same sweet eternity of love.