Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

Nonfiction is easy and fiction is hard.

Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.

I always used to be an inside person, and now I'm an outside person.

For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable. No one chip gives you the answer for everything. No one chip stays in the same place throughout your entire life. The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you’re lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you’re alive.

If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, "No. That is not where I want to go."

Everyone knows everything eventually.