To be or not to be, is not the question, if you ain't something then you are nothing.

I dreamt, I woke, I grafted, I failed, I persisted, I conquered.

Arithmetic is the death of story.

Life is a mess. And theology must be lived out in the midst of that mess.

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

The body of literature, with its limits and edges, exists outside some people and inside others. Only after the writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature.

Openly questioning the way the world works and challenging the power of the powerful is not an activity customarily rewarded.

His regime has had high-level contacts with al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided training to al Qaeda terrorists.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Language is the only chimera whose illusory power is endless, the inexhaustibility which keeps life from being impoverished. Let men learn to serve language.

I much prefer the company of the crew, the sort of 'blue-collar working person.' I much more have that sensibility than what the public perceives as what a typical actor would have.