Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

With a hangover and with fear, it is difficult to put a helmet on your head.

They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

[Y]ou can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil.

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

It's a hard thing to explain to somebody who hasn't felt it, but the presence of death and danger has a way of bringing you fully awake. It makes things vivid.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, expect there's still this sound you can't hear.

In darkness, remember that the sun never forgets to rise with her morning smile.

Unfortunately, nothing can protect you from the thoughts in your own head.

I'm Jewish in the way Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.

How difficult it is to find solitude in a world that constantly demands your attention.

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.

When you find it you become the secret addressee of a literary text and I felt that their reader had been left out of this experience of reading poetry or what the experience of poetry was.

The best sales questions have your expertise wrapped into them.

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

A true marketplace is a treasure of long tail products.

I had my autograph down by the age of 13. I used to sign it everywhere.