The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.

I'm kind of a distractible guy.

Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.

I think once you love somebody, you love somebody; that's just how it is.

Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws.

I don't want to be taken to Bhutan and smell the flowers. I want to be told something I couldn't have been told any other way.

Any rainy summer morning, of course, has the seeds of gloomy alienation sown in. But a rainy summer morning far from home - when your personal clouds don't move but hang - can easily produce the feeling of the world as seen from the grave. This I know.