The past was a bridge that looked solid and sturdy, but once you were on it, you saw that it extended only far enough to strand you, to suspend you between loss and longing with nowhere to go at all.

Like skateboarders, writers live by rejection; like writers, any skater worth his salt must have the single-minded tenacity of a wiener dog.

Stories aren’t about things. Stories are things.

Stories aren't about things. Stories are things. Stories aren't about actions. Stories are, unto themselves, actions.

Security is a strange thing, a myth that the brain allows in exchange for a brief moment of peace.

So you were talking crap about me? Hm. I missed it. I was too busy being fabulous.

For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.

It is not what we choose that is important; it is the reason we choose it.

I wasn't always such a great fan of Shakespeare, mind you. I can guess we all at one time had it rammed down our necks at school, which tends to take the edge off it.

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw.

Fish got to swim, birds got to fly.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.