It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.

The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.

In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.

Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

You're nothing in America if you don't have debt.

Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.

Never hope for it more than you work for it.