Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world

... the story of my marriage, which is the great joy and astonishment of my life, is too much like a fairy tale, the German kind, unsweetened by Disney.

Is it possible that anxiety ends at the moment when we no longer have time for it?

I think that she is everything I have ever loved about our religion distilled down to fit into one person, everything about the faith that is both selfless and responsible.

I'll borrow of imagination what reality will not give me.

Alchohol doesn't make you fat...it make you Lean...on tables, chairs & random people!!!

If the mind is dominated by hatred, the best part of the brain, which is used to judge right and wrong, does not function properly.

In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.

Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.

I don't want words that other people have invented. All the words are other people's inventions. I want my own stuff, my own rhythm, and vowels and consonants too, matching the rhythm and all my own.

Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

Intemperance is the plaque of sensuality, and temperance is not its bane but its seasoning.

At one point [Cardew] taught himself to play guitar simply in order to take part in the performance in a composition by Boulez, which is a little like saying he learned Danish to read Kiekegaard.