It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.

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.

You want society to accept you, but you can't even accept yourself.

Birds have wings they're free they can fly where they want when they want. They have the kind of mobility many people envy.

Laws without morals are in vain.

Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters.

Finding peace within, to find peace all throughout

There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell.

Chess is a cold bath for the mind

Whoever eats anything at a wedding luncheon? They make the food out of papier mache. My salad had been used four or five times this week.

I loved growing up in Canada. It’s a great place to grow up, because - well, at least where I grew up -it’s very multicultural. There’s also good health care and a good education system.

Mr. Starr, have you no shame? Facts and law are always subordinated to the will of the American people.