The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel.

Colonial power, patriarchal power, capitalist power must always and everywhere be battled, because they never, ever quit. (Junot Diaz)

Evil does not listen to reason.

We like other people to show themselves to us as they really are.

Young girls come up to me all the time to ask for advice. They see me as a survivor.

Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.

I don't mind what happens. That is the essence of inner freedom. It is a timeless spiritual truth: release attachment to outcomes, deep inside yourself, you'll feel good no matter what.

When you don't want something enough to make the effort, making an effort is a waste.

The dead made this world. We didn't make it. They made the poetry and the songs and the customs.

Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless. Christmas dinner's dark and blue. When you stop and try to see it From the turkey's point of view.

I was in Graham's office the day he bought GEICO. Warren owns one-third of the stock today.