There are no days more full than those we go back to.

Where happiness was not a possibility, the illusion of it was always more important.

Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off.

...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.

Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.

Failure is a disappointment but not defeat.

A couple of years ago this guy called Ken Brown wrote a book saying that Linus stole Linux from me It later came out that Microsoft had paid him to do this

The college stations have a big voice, and I would like to become more involved with them. I would like to have symposiums with the members of various college radio stations.

There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.

I really have a lot of stuff in my head; if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things.

I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.

I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.

I love meeting Israeli people. They look at me like a son

I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.

Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.