You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.

No one forgets the truth; they just get better at lying.

Remember what Anatole France said about the dog masturbating on your leg--'Sure, it's honest, but who needs it?

Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk.

If my work has a theme, I suspect it is a simple one: that most human beings are inescapably alone, and therein lies their tragedy.

It haunted him all night, while he slept alone; it was still there in the morning, when he swallowed his coffee and backed down the driveway in the crumpled old Ford. And riding to work, one of the youngest and healthiest passengers on the train, he sat with the look of a man condemned to a very slow, painless death. He felt middle-aged.

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.