You have to live in the world to say anything meaningful about it.

I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea’s consoling silence.

You never knew what to expect with Ingrid. One minute she could be sawing the locks off Pierpont's freezers; the next, providing shelter for the homeless birds of Switzerland.

A poem that is itself a name does not yearn for the name of its creator, but shines from its name alone.

Let go with love.

It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body.

Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.

Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.

The only game. The game of thrones.

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent.

Swift was the race, but short the time to run.

Sooner or later, I need to begin to do what any candidate does in a presidential race; I need to begin to win.

When I was about, I'd say, 18 or 19 years old, I wanted to be a part of the CIA just because they know those intimate secrets... So I was just always into knowing. I like to know things.