Feeling that morality has nothing to do with the way you use the resources of the world is an idea that can't persist much longer. If it does, then we won't.

The writing has been on the wall for some years now, but we are a nation illiterate in the language of the wall. The writing just gets bigger. Something will eventually bring down the charming, infuriating naïveté of Americans that allows us our blithe consumption and cheerful ignorance of the secret ugliness that bring us whatever we want.

Given my own circumstances, I find that anything can turn out to belong nearly anywhere.

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe; I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.

People's dreams are made out of what they do all day. The same way a dog that runs after rabbits will dream of rabbits. It's what you do that makes your soul, not the other way around.

To think is not always to see.