172 Quotes by Walter Kirn

I feel like my head is finally the right size. I feel like it finally fits around my mind.

The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.

I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

Love is a powerful painkiller.

In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'

A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.

Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.

E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.

The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them.