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….

Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. The….

I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden..

The best critic needn't be right, just interesting..

Love is a powerful painkiller..

A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he wo….

Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a to….

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?.

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

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

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialise alone..

Spirit was a by-product of activity, like the reflection from a spinning fan blade, and our souls in the end did not reside within us but flowed outw….

You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you're lost now..

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

I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn - small, tasty d….

We're all impostors to ourselves. By that I mean that we know instinctively, intimately, the difference between whom we are inside and who we appear ….

It's no accident that most self-help groups use 'anonymous' in their names; to Americans, the first step toward redemption is a ritual wiping out of ….

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

At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They aren't. Confi….

A writer has a use for his experiences that most civilians simply don't; he or she discerns material in situations that others simply live through. P….

The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them..