There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

The most loving, soft, and sweetest word in the world is “Mom.

Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself.

Wrestling is pretty DIY. I've been doing it for 12 years, completely on my own. It's like being in a band or running a zine - except that I get to kick people in the face.

I find so many things to fear and so few to hope.

The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.

Writers are completely out of touch with reality.

There are a lot of robots who can open clicks. And they can click instead of human beings and this is damaging the confidence and the trust that the client has on programmatic.