I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

Home is a fairy tale, the kind where children are lost in the woods, found, cooked and eaten.

I am grateful to all my readers

Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.

To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.

With failure, you just try again.

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

One neutron bomb in the morning may just ruin your whole morning.

I'd rather be called a N*gger than a Slave.