The fundamental truth: a baseball game is nothing but a great slow contraption for getting you to pay attention to the cadence of a summer day.

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.

We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath.

Respect is a thing earned, not bought, and a man who lets it be known that he seeks respect will probably never see it bestowed.

It is easier to align our opinions with facts, than it is to align facts with our opinions.

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

It's a great freedom to give up on love, and get on with everything else.

you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece

I believe we owe it to our children and grandchildren to stay engaged and to help spread liberty and to help reformers.

David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

I always call him Lewis Carroll Carroll, because he was the first Humbert Humbert.