How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

Once one pays some attention to something, then you begin to see evidence of it everywhere.

Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.

Political activism is seductive because it seems to offer the possibility that one can improve society, make things better, without going through the personal ordeal of rearranging one's perceptions and transforming one's self.

I believe in nothing, everything is sacred. I believe in everything, nothing is sacred.

I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.

The brown paper bag is the only thing civilized man has produced that does not seem out of place in nature.