He was a fugitive, lurking soul, James Leer. He didn't belong anywhere, but things went much better for him in places where nobody belonged.

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.

Writing on architecture is not like history or poetry.

I think the only music I didn't listen to was country and western, and that holds to this day.

I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons.

When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.

Don't let the actions of a few determine the way you feel about an entire group. Remember, not all German's were Nazis.

Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.

Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.

I'm the depresso guy on holidays.

When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.

Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.