Yoga pants often answer questions I didn't ask.

If there is such a things as "race", there is only the Human one.

Even-money that my liver lasts through my wife's metamorphosis to my mother-in-law.

I'm not unlucky at love, just incredibly lucky with celibacy.

I have zero tolerance for people with zero tolerance.

There are two kinds of people:those who learned to love and those who didn't.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

On the whole I woke up in the morning and was happy to be alive.

A master of tone and texture and an authority on the bizarre, Karen Russell writes with great flair and fearlessness.

A public debt is a kind of anchor in the storm; but if the anchor be too heavy for the vessel, she will be sunk by that very weight which was intended for her preservation.

Nobody's going to vote for terrorism. So our governments don't have that sort of political pressure to act in a responsible manner when it comes to stewardship of our rights.

One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep.

If you don't feel good about something, you don't shake it off easily.

I wasn't born, I was unleashed.

Some people choose not to engage the battle and then don't seek out that kind of success. And others do.