You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first.

It's just that no one wants to be the one being rescued, we all want to do the rescuing.

Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?

The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

When I say that life is like an onion, I mean this: if you don't do anything with it, it goes rotten. So far, that's no different from other vegetables. But when an onion goes bad, it can either do it from the inside, or the outside. So sometimes you see one that looks good, but the core is rotten. Other times, you can see a bad spot on it, but if you cut that out, the rest is fine. Tastes sharp, but that's what you paid for, isn't it?

One man's mistake is another man's opportunity.