I never made a decision in my life that wasn’t one hundred per cent selfish.
It’s great to have an enemy. Sharpens your senses.
I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you’re 15, you tend to never lose it.
To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given.
Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.
Man is a means for turning things into spirit and turning spirit into things.
The crooked little tomato branches, pulpy and pale as if made of cheap green paper, broke under the weight of so much fruit; there was something frantic in such fertility, a crying-out like that of children frantic to please.
Life is a razor, you are always in hot water or a scrape.
Life is a roller coaster, you have your ups and downs unless you fall off.
Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end.
Writing doesn’t require drive. It’s like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.
Money is like water in a leaky bucket: no sooner there, it begins to drip.
I think books should have secrets, like people do.
There’s always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.
Being on TV is like being alive, only more so.
It’s a man’s world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.
The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That’s one thing about your mother, she’s never been bitter.
The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.
Yes, there is a ton of information on the Web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.
Cities aren’t like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.