The world like our heads was meant to be escaped from, they are prisons world and head alike.

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.

You have to really believe that you can move mountains.

Many go to great lengths to discover God's will or to hear His voice, yet we only need to open His Book.

You can never hurt me, And you will never cause me painCause you're made of fire, And I'm the heavy rain.

I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?

If you can conceive it in your mind, then it can be brought to the physical world.

All knowledge leads to self-knowledge.

When I was born again, I received the very life of the risen Lord from Jesus Himself.

The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.

A fallible being will fail somewhere.

why couldn't someone , somewhere , want her for her ?