In the age of networked everything, life moves sideways and covers lots of ground while barely touching the earth.

Requesting permission from someone to be honest is really a way of accusing the other person of being so demanding or overbearing that you couldn't be honest all along.

realized that at a level I'd never been conscious we'd been engaged in a game of wits for years. I suppose most writer-subject pairings are like that. Of course, I'd set aside my plan to write about him [Clark Rockfeller] as soon as I'd gotten to know him some, but now I'd resumed that intention.

A writer turns his life into material, and if you’re in his life, he uses yours, too.

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

He knows, as all the cleverest ones do, that no human being is so interesting that he can't make himself more interesting still by acting retarded at random intervals.