The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great length.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.

I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign.

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil.

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.

We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.

Joy of harvest belongs only to those who endure the pain of sowing.

The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a stranger.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

I feel challenged every day, when I come to work. I feel like I have to step up my game, and that's a great thing.

If you treat your feelings with as much love as you treat your dog or your cat or your child you'll feel as if you were living in heaven.

If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

I think if you have to make sandwiches to get a ring - you should do good things for your man, but I don't think I would do that.

I think you really have to tap into your sense of humor in order to survive.

I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof, 'tis the very disgrace and ignominy of our natures.