As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises.

Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.

My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.

Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

Words are life. They can tear down or build up, so use them wisely.

I sang a song at my sister's wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

I find that if I go on a vacation, it's like that's more stress to me, because I want to get back.

I have almost completed a long novel, but it is unpublishable until my death and England's.

Wherever I found a living creature, there I found the will to power.

Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.

A media system wants ostensible diversity that conceals an actual uniformity

Flyer than the rest but I don’t rest I keep goin

Ever since I was young, I have wanted to help others live happy, healthy, fulfilling lives.

Meet success like a gentleman; disaster like a man.