It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.

Good novels are produced by people who voluntarily isolate themselves and go deep, and report from the depths on what they find.

The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.

If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect.

Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you never do because you're dead!

THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value from key financial markets, a contraction too gradual to generate headlines and too predictable to seriously hurt anybody but fools and the working poor.

Seriously, the world is changing so quickly that if you had any more than 80 years of change I don't see how you could stand it psychologically.