I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.

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.

To move forth and grab your destiny is admirable. To shape your own future with the strength in your fist is beyond that.

When you know who you truly are, the need to compare yourself to others would become highly unnecessary.

I always questioned if I was CALLED to adopt, but then I realized no child was ever CALLED to be an orphan.

Life is so rotatory that the wilderness falls to each, sometime.

It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

You can always find a stray negative comment on the Internet. It's like everybody loves to put negative comments on the Internet under the cloak of anonymity.

I seem to have fallen for women with missing parents. Goodness knows what it signifies.

Making it through the ceiling to the other side was simply a matter of running on a path created by every other woman's footprints.

All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.

John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.