Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.

Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.

We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.

Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.

Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life.

I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess.

I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner.

Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another.

Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll, In pleasing memory of all he stole.

We don’t change to believe

Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though.

When someone repeatedly insists that something isn't true, it increases the likelihood that it is.

The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation.

The writing of a poem is like a child throwing stones into a mineshaft. You compose first, then you listen for the reverberation.

Will capitalist economies operate at full employment in the absence of routine intervention? Certainly not.

That we have some history together that hasn’t happened yet.

The easy road is always under construction,so have an alternate route planned.

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!