If it comes down to a choice between being unloved and being vulnerable and sensitive and emotional, then you can just keep your love.

The problem with educating stupid people was that they didn’t know they were stupid. The same went for curing crazy people.

All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does. Still, with a plan, you only get the best you can imagine. I'd always hoped for something better than that.

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.

The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage.

Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.