Today's Baudelaires are hip-hop artists.

I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.

Integrity's a neutral value. Hyenas have integrity, too. They're pure hyena.

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.

The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.

The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life.

Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

Excellence will give you the recognition you crave for, but humility will keep you standing longer than expected.

Sometimes you don’t even know how strong you are, the devil sees it before you do and attacks

Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.

There's always criticism in any process and I think that's a healthy thing.

the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

Past: Jesus saved us from the penalty of sin. Present: He saves us from the power of sin. Future: He will save us from the presence of sin.

Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice.

I am peaceful but I am not a pacifist in the philosophical sense.

I've always believed the mission is greater than the man.

Without commitment, no price will be low enough. With commitment, no price will be too high.