The only real nation is humanity

Curing yourself of obsessive compulsive disorder by going to a strip club is pretty strange.

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

I know that to write you have to have stories you want to tell. You have to keep your mind alive, and you have to work hard.

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time

If you had an essentially happy childhood, that tends to dwell with you.

That's when I feel most alive, he told me once on an airplane, when I'm helping people.