I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

The trouble is, I can't find a part of myself where you're not important. I write in order to be worth your while and to finance the way I want to live with you. Not the way you want to live. The way I want to live with you. Without you I wouldn't care. I'd eat tinned spaghetti and put on yesterday's clothes. But as it is I change my socks, and make money, and tart up Brodie's unspeakable drivel into speakable drivel so he can be an author too, like me.

The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.

My whole life is waiting for the questions to which I have prepared answers.

For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he now

Theater is a recreation. It can be much more, but unless it's recreation, I don't see the point of it.

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.