I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

Orange and speckled and fluted nudibranchs slide gracefully over the rocks, their skirts waving like the dresses of Spanish dancers.

I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that's why.

A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly.

For it is my opinion that we enclose and celebrate the freaks of our nation and our civilization. Yellowstone National Park is no more representative of America than is Disneyland.

..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.