To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

I think it's a lovely idea, but it will not pass the Congress. I live in a world of realities. The policy of our country is that we can drill our way to independence. I think that's a march to folly.

I am heat obsessed. I crave the heat in my bedroom.

Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt.

There's a ton of truth in Flannery O'Connor's notion that "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."

It is astonishing what foolish things one can temporarily believe if one thinks too long alone, particularly in economics.

It's the face the world sees, the one you can change as many times as you want

Technologies themselves, regardless of content, produce a hemispheric bias in the users.

They were all you, to me. All of them were you.

I don't think you can have a better secretary of the Treasury than Hank Paulson.