The National Rifle Association is a domestic terrorist organization that tacitly supports the killing of children more than it supports reasoned gun legislation.

The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me.

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.

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

I think that's the thing that memoir can do more than anything it does; it testifies and bears witness to the existence of people whose lives, pleasures and virtues would never have been testified to without my having done it. That makes me really glad.

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.