Consider it: Who but God could have dreamed a tale so absurd and so heartless?

Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.

Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.

It’s a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.

Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me, acknowledge me. It didn’t seem so dangerous at the time.

Kafka didn't save me. He just told me I was drowning.

I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he were misplaced. As if he could just turn up, like a sock or a set of keys.

...like a small stone deflected off a larger one, my brother had spun off toward the Almighty, though to my mind the events of that morning could just as well have cast him the other way.

The only thing your life teaches you is how to live your life. And that’s only if you’re very lucky. And you listen very hard.

I was raised to be ashamed of my ignorance, and to try to do something about it if at all possible.

I suspect that on some level, life is a matter of indefensible loyalties.

If you know what you're doing, you're doing dull stuff.

From the plough to paper, from the wheel to house, from tool handles to sailing ships. Man would have been nothing without trees.

Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.

Anybody is influenced by where and how he lives.

I've never been a big gore guy.

It doesn't escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else's.

Branding is not about what something says or what it means, but how it makes us feel.

Money is needed to bring about many good things but when your heart is attached, it destroys you

My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I really began to admire people like Steven Soderbergh.

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.