When have I ever given him the impression that I was okay with him just stopping by whenever he wanted to use my body as an organic garbage disposal?

By staying, by shirking the responsibility and effort of leaving, by continuing to occupy this lovely man while giving him neither children nor a public companion nor a welcoming home-do I do wrong?

Happiness is experienced when your life gives you what you are willing to accept.

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?

The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load.

Got demons on both shoulders.

Alec would have said he could have benefited from a bit more in the way of constructive cowardice.

We now operate in a world in which we can assume neither competence nor good faith from the authorities. The consequences of this simple, devastating realization define American life.

There is nothing more attractive than a person who radiates simple unaffected humanity.

You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.