The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.

Somebody has to keep score and I decided I was going to do it. I'm a born score-keeper and I realize, like an umpire, that my decisions may cause distress.

The only absolute attainment is absolute abandonment.

You can only have a war with another country. You can't have a war with bad temper or a war against paranoids.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain enough that the specific combination which was he would never exist again.