To be an American and unable to play baseball is comparable to being a Polynesian and unable to swim.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

I've been homesick for countries I've never been, and longed to be where I couldn't be.

Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.

Don’t be afraid of those failures that do not lead to a loss of life or that do not incapacitate people.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevit

As Plato insisted two thousand years ago, it is not by means of the image that moral, ethical, or political knowledge is produced.

Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

I have 13 dependents. All of them have 140 IQ or better, except me. I'm under 100 IQ, and I support them all.

Even in despair, man must laugh.

Women should know that they don't have to hang on to an old dream that has stopped nurturing them - that there is always time to start a new dream.

The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

Long time I been on my own, but now really I'm alone. I survive the killing, the starving, all the hate of the Khmer Rouge, but I think maybe now I will die of this, of broken heart.