Your field report might be the reason someone detoured six blocks, say, on their way to the chiropractor.

Birth is a dream, spontaneous and innate. Death, on the other hand, is a slow, false, divine calamity. It is like love.

I'm hyper-aware of my last name and it's lack of Derby or Horowtiz-esque sonorousness. Moffett sounds like a type of couch cushion. I guess I'm hoping to start a wave of first-name usage.

I'm a total ignoramus about the technical aspects but I have to say that it's awfully purty now.

I was thinking what I usually think about when I write: what the next word should be, whether my character should be an emu farmer or a wallaby farmer, the searing pain in my right temple.

I'm pretending to be a vegetarian. Were I not, I believe I probably still wouldn't eat a wallaby.

It is at the time of spiritual wilderness experience that the devil begins to remind us about the past

Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.

Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over

The greatest gift you can give (yourself or anyone else) is just being present

Forever and an InstantForever and an instant met up one day, had a short but lovely talk, then each went on its way.

Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

Yes, well, principles are sometimes the problem, if you ask me,' said Miles. 'Often what's needed is a bit of common sense.' 'Which is the name people usually give to their prejudices,' rejoined Kay.

If I can't be my own, I'd feel better dead

Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain.