[T]o love a specific person, and to identify with his or her struggles and joys as if they were your own, you have to surrender some of your self.

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

You simply cannot know the depth of your magnificence without the contrast of life.

In this he saw that Ogion had been right: the shadow could not draw on his power, so long as he was turned against it.

A huge meringue with polio who drives everywhere in a beautifully restored Hillman Imp.

Prayer is something deeper than words. It is present in the soul before it has been formulated in words. And it abides in the soul after the last words of prayer have passed over our lips.

If something's bound to happen, it will happen.. Right time, right person, and for the best reason.

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

Racing through the field and hunting make the mind wild.

Along my journey / through this transitory world, / new year's housecleaning.

I'm a fan myself and I'm frustrated just as much as them when we get beat.

Government is best which governs least