[On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver wanted.

The villain is the person who knows the most but cares the least.

Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.

Seeing no resolution to my existential recognition of loss, I decide to eat lunch.

First, you must love yourself. And if you do that convincingly enough, others will love you too much.

People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.

I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you plan the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.

The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.' People who say that are boorish and pretentious at the same time.

Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.

Humans can be as good as they can be bad. Because goodness and evil both are biological traits of the mind.

I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what's more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.

You choose the end of the summer to fall in love with this guy because secretly, you don’t want it to last.

...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise

If there are people who yearn for the days when Saddam Hussein was in power, then I am not among them.

There's a big anti-intellectual strain in the American south, and there always has been. We're not big on thought.

A global economy is characterized not only by the free movement of goods and services but, more important, by the free movement of ideas and of capital.

It's not my job to critique the writing. I'm there to serve it. I had to figure out a way to make it work.

You meet a better class of person in pubs.

The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.