Once there are good sentences on the page, I can feel a loyalty to them and start following their logic, and take refuge from myself.

Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.

Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he had to go and intellectualize it.

I feel that working environmentalists are, in the main, happier than armchair environmentalists.

It offended his sense of himself, because he was an individual from an age of individuals, and a string of lights was, like him, an individual thing. No matter how little the thing had cost, to throw it away was to deny its value.

To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. You can multitask with a lot of things, but you can’t really multitask reading a book.

I admire your capacity for admiring.