All writing is filth

If there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking

It is not important what would you do for your love, what matters is what have you been doing for it.

Witness your thoughts, moods, and behaviors. They represent your memories of the past, and by witnessing them in the present, you liberate yourself from the past.

One thing we didn't know in 1996 is that it's very, very difficult, if not impossible, to sustain a culture with online advertising.

Except in these latter-day songs, [Bob] Dylan is a grizzled old prophet who's already been to hell and back.

As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.

Art is a criticism of society and life, and I believe that if life became perfect, art would be meaningless and cease to exist.

When teams are truly learning, not only are they producing extraordinary results, but the individual members are growing more rapidly than could have occurred otherwise.

I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.