Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

If you have the guts to be yourself, other people'll pay your price.

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.