The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself.

It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.

I think there's a playfulness and a distance to Kavalier and Clay that I don't aspire to in my stuff. Maybe I'm more old-fashioned, and less of a fabulist, in that way.

What makes us threaten the things we want most?

She thought she'd put up with however many years of stonewalling for a good reason, and she'd just figured out that as far as Castle Hubby went, she hadn't even crossed the moat yet.

I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other. An agenda, again, that seems more important now than ever.

I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about meld with what I have experienced.

Disasters occur organically in my work, in that that's the way my thinking tends, more than that's what I start out by planning. I'm sort of a catastrophist.

I very much like people. I don't much like writers who don't.

Class is the most taboo subject in America. The American media would rather talk about race or perversion or anything else considered taboo before class.

Christy has not been given a fair shake. She has not been identified as a competent premier.

If the existentialists are right, that life is meaningless, and if we acknowledge that, we are better equipped to find pleasure in small things.

I am what I am, and I don't apologize for being honest.

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

If I'm more prepared, the success will fall on me; if not, it will fall on someone else, and I'm okay with that.

I don't think of Twitter as a social network. I think of it as a messaging system that has a lot of social components to it.

There was nothing subtle about our landing. The pilot just pointed the nose at the ground and let her rip.

I decided what I wanted to do, not to make me look good, but to make me feel comfortable. Other presidents do it other ways.

I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time.

Turkeys are peacocks that have really let themselves go.

Unfortunately, if you don't want to be in the spotlight, get out of it.