Books and beer are the best and worst defense.

One play can change your momentum forever.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

If you're good at it, and you love it, and it helps you navigate the river of the world, then it can't be wrong.

Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and bookstores are drowning polar bears. And if people can't see that or don't want to talk about it, I don't understand them at all.

Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out the window and yells, "Go back to your own country," and I was laughing so hard because it wasn't so much a hate crime as a crime of irony.

We only know how to lose and be lost.