Reality is a question of perspective.

A man who catches History's eye is thereafter bound to a mistress from whom he will never escape.

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

They lived in a great city, a metropolis of many narratives that converged briefly and then separated for ever, discovering their different dooms in that crowd of stories through which all of us, following our own destinies, had to push and shove to find our way through, or out.

It's true that the human body is more vulnerable than the products of the human mind.

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.