Yes, they mean well, but the only good that an absence of malice guarantees is a clear conscience.

It’s always nice to learn a thing or two from a novel, don’t you think?

How many senators have taken their conception of what America can do from what they’ve seen on the American movie screen?

An exile, said Zafar, is a refugee with a library.

Time...a maniac scattering dust.

Almost everything important in life is invisible.

A long time ago people believed that the world is flat and the moon is made of green cheese. Some still do, to this day. The man on the moon is looking down and laughing.

Victory must be real. It must be earned. That means it must be rare and difficult, against steep odds, and defeat must be the other.

Deceptions of the senses are the truths of perception.

Record company execs eat their young, I swear to God.

This concern which interests us more than anything else: the blurring of the distinction between art and life.

Unity is not blind allegiance.

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.