What's going to be hard for me is to try to divorce myself as much as possible from what I wrote. I'll have to approach it simply as raw material and try to craft a film script out of it.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises.

Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.

My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.

Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

Hobbes: Do you think there's a God?Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!

I have tried to be righteous all my life. Yet I have never been content.

It doesn’t extinguish the fire with ice. (On n’éteint pas le feu - Avec des glaçons.)

A problem well stated is a problem half solved.

Time cant be given. But it can be shared.

Every dude in your high school wasn't striving to be the best poet because then he'd get all the girls, right? But you could imagine a society in which that were the case.

‎'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book.

I'm not a natural joiner.

Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space.

I don't think it's a low point being in the finals of the French Open, three points away from the victory.