Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing - none of that is writing. Writing is writing. Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

We're always attracted to the edges of what we are, out by the edges where it's a little raw and nervy.

I did have a feeling then that the culture of factuality was so dominating that storytelling had lost all its authority.

I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.

The philosophical conservative is someone willing to pay the price of other people s suffering for his principles.

Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

Communists have no respect for people, only for positions.