The world isn't going to be destroyed, but you don't feel safe anymore in your plane or train or office or auditorium.

I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography.

Explain me to myself, you’ll make me choke on my lunch. Feel sympathy for me, I’ll puke monkey blood on your understated shoes.

The genius of the primitive mind is that it can render human helplessness in noble and beautiful ways.

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that's all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.

Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

Clouds are no deterrent. Clouds intensify the drama, trap and shape the light.