What terrorists gain, novelists lose.

I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what they mean, but even what they look like.

I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract Expressionism.

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.

I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.

What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.

California deserves whatever it gets. Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted.

Come on sempai, would you please stop growing mushrooms in other people's closets? -Haruhi

As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.

I like people who are being normal and being themselves.

The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.

One of my degrees was a science degree in biology.

Obama is the closest thing to a Latino that we have. Barack. Everybody wants to see his birth certificate too.

politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

Whatever 'in love' means.