Every Messiah fails, the moment he tries to redeem himself.

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.

Snowflake’s journey is a metaphor. A metaphor for what, exactly?I have no freaking clue.

Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.

But for half a minute she wished it was a different sort of day, even though she knew that nothing good could come from wanting at the world. Even though she knew it was a wicked thing to do.

We wanted to give back to the fans what they've given us, and that is unbelievable support thoughout the World Cup

You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me.

The form of free verse is as binding and as liberating as the form of a rondeau.

Our Soviet society is socialist because private ownership of factories, plants, land, banks and means of transportation has been abolished in our country, and replaced by public ownership.

There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.

I'd like to be remembered as a good person, that gave as much as she could with what she had to give.

Nico, I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest.