... But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake.

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.

Believe so brightly that everyone sees the beauty in believing.

It is not everyday that one learns an entire militia has sworn unbeknownest to obey you

Summer was a book of hope. That's why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.

Leaders set high standards. Refuse to tolerate mediocrity or poor performance.

Yet even the brightest of sunrises must come to an end.

Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.

When we experience fear, it cuts us off from our power. It cuts us off from knowledge and experience. It is a guillotine that falls and separates.

Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.

Rapping about a surgery is something that makes sense for me to do.

I couldn't remember the last time I hadn't had to fake gratitude for a gift, and now that I actually was grateful, thank you didn't seem to cut it.