We referenced fictional characters as if they were people to learn from. As if real-life people were too nebulous, too private and unreal for us to understand.

Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

Love and honesty don't mix.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.

If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves.

Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

Angry men have little to live for when their rage becomes ineffective.

Freedom is the only thing we must demand in life, for all other good things stem from it

Science isn't just about blowing things up. Rather it's about blowing things up and knowing how you did it.

What you have always believed in is the real you.

A humble knowledge of oneself is a surer road to God than a deep searching of the sciences.

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

In New York, people are unhappy on purpose, because unhappiness makes them seem more complex; in Washington DC it just sort of works out that way.

Love each other. Regard each other as members of one family.

I want to tell a story that makes the reader always want to see what will happen next.

Worry is useless mulling over of things we cannot change. Worry is not concern, which would motivate you to do everything possible in a situation.

I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.

Every pain has a gain behind it