Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something else.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

The quickest way to find honey is to follow bees.

Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.

Everybody is waiting for something whether it is in the short or long term.

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual for what the gods had given him.

I happen to be one who believes very strongly that state and local governments have their proper roles.

Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.

I'm a man more dined against than dining.

I’ve never considered joining Twitter, nor do I know why anybody would.

When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.

If you have love you will do all things well.