I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.

Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.

I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.

The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In Swedish, he could only converse on the darkest of subjects.

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.

My novels are very much the same, as I think many people's novels are.

I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.