He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once. |
I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it. |
I think the First Amendment is probably the most important thing that you have in this country. And I'm always horrified at the cavalier way that you (Americans) treat it. |
I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area. |
I, on the other hand, |
I'll come to you tonight, dear, when it's late, You will not see me; you may feel a chill. I'll wait until you sleep, then take my fill, And that will be your future on a plate. They'll call it chance, or luck, or call it Fate. |
I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing. |
If this isn’t literature, nothing is. |
is not a big, solid, serious book. |
Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? |
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. |
It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. |
It was a dark and stormy nightmare |
It's an America with strange mythic depths. I see it as a distorting mirror; a book of danger and secrets, of romance and magic. It's about the soul of America, really. What people brought to America; what found them when they came; and the things that lie sleeping beneath it all. |
Lives are snowflakes - forming patterns we have seen before, as like one another as peas in a pod (and have you ever looked at peas in a pod? I mean, really looked at them? There's not a chance you'd mistake one for another, after a minute's close in |