Within perfect walls there is nothing worth protecting. There is, in fact, nothing. And so we exchange privacy for intimacy.

People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.

The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants, and I'll tell you who they are, and how to persuade them.

It was always this way: The more people talked, the more they obscured. You didn't need to argue for the truth. You could see it.

Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a plan before you've thought of one, in my experience.

'Your brain doesn't process language quite like other people. Why that is, I have no idea.' 'I have a superior brain?' 'Uh, ' Eliot said, 'I wouldn't go that far.'

Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, aborted chickens.

[S]he was in a pretty crazy place, screaming and waving the bucket-knife around, spattered with blood from head to toe. Lee was lying on the floor, quietly pumping out his life through his throat.

We all move on from history to chance, sorrow to sorrow, hope to hope, joy to joy. Read the book of fiction on the theme. its title is FROM HISTORY TO CHANCE

The task of saving the earth's environment must and will become the central organizing principle of the post-Cold War world.

I'm moving to a point that I'm fed up with the N.C.A.A. dictation.

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for books I love.

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

My grandfather went through a lot in his life.

Fifty-dollar oil is just another stop on the road to much higher crude prices.

It's a cold world, better pack your own heat.

Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.