Perhaps the act of writing is necessary when nothing happens.

Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.

Without the threat of punishment, there is no joy in flight.

Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate.

Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.

It's a dangerous dog that doesn't bark.

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

The minute you begin to have doubts, the floor under your feet starts to shake.

The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.

Time cannot be spurred on like a horse.

Yet there seemed to be some truth in the law of probability, according to which the chance of success is directly proportionate to the number of repetitions.

Sometimes the truth is so bizarre and mind bending that it must be presented as fiction to be accepted.George SaundersThe Bookseller

It doesn't think anything we don't want it to think.''That's sad, ' said Montag, quietly, 'because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know.

I always found the appeal to the market gods a bit odd. Why would the market fix mistakes instead of aggravating them?

If you're middle aged... where're you going to go to meet someone? You're not going to go to a bar, you're not going to go to a night club; and there are the museums.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

You're a small business and you have to take care of yourself the way you would a small business and take care of yourself the way any small business owner would.

Whenever I read a book about a marriage, I always feel I'm being lied to.

Just 'cause you're following a well-marked trail don't mean that whoever made it knew where they were goin'.

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person.

Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.