The rest of Sitka's homicides are so-called crimes of passion, which is a shorthand way of expressing the mathematical product of alcohol and firearms.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises.

Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.

My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.

Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

It is important not only to know that you are called but also to take important actions and work hard toward fulfilling the calling

Loosing is part of winning. You will have to walk through the shadow of failure to get to he winning side.

Hiding the truth is as evil as feedingthe lie grow tough muscles.

There are two possibilities: accept the reality or change yourself to get ready to accept the reality.

Regular people have such a hard time listening to the low hum of instinct.

When we see goodness in everything and everyone, we become good.

I try my best to create a good quote while sitting alone. But I can never create it. Only on talking to you I get lots of lines

I never give up hope.

Meat-eating is condemned by the Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Sravakas; if one devours meat out of shamelessness he will always be devoid of sense.

Every individual has in himself perfection. It lies within the dark recesses of his physical being.