No single person who has ever lived will be able to tell you what happens. Period. Nobody's right and nobody's wrong.

People are really suffering these days. There's a lot of corporate triumph and a lot of personal despair as they wonder what are they working for.

I didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So the idea is that every time you don't scream, that's your Buddhist side.

Books are the way the dead talk to the living.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.

Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something.