In every death is a celebration; in every ecstasy, one little death.

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.

You can indulge your righteous rage but the things it comes out of are pretty cheap. The trick is to make yourself an instrument of your own policy. Whether you like it or not, that's the highest effectiveness man has achieved.

I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.

I don't want to retire. I'm not that good at crossword puzzles

Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.