It's like if the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts.

…she had no resources for solitude…

Eating humble pie is not very enjoyable, and it is even less so eating it alone.

Mice: What is the best early training for a writer?Y.C.: An unhappy childhood.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Religion is love in no case is it logic.

I've never felt scared of flight, ever. It's really weird. I don't know. They stick a gin and tonic in your hands and I just think, "Life is good!"

I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference.

If the mind could cease measuring itself against the hero, the perfect, the glorious and all that, it would be what it is.

Beating drums while doing a kindness to somone is a very ugly show of ego!

What replaces Christianity isn't going to be Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and so on. It's going to be something else and something secular people may not like very much.