When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.
There is no such thing as repetition. Only insistance.
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
You have to know what you want to get it.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.
Every genuinely literary style, from the high authorial voice to Foster Wallace and his footnotes-within-footnotes, requires the reader to see the world from somewhere in particular, or from many places. So every novelist's literary style is nothing less than an ethical strategy - it's always an attempt to get the reader to care about people who are not the same as he or she is.
Now, I'm getting a little older, got more responsibility, I don't need to be depressed.
Injuries happen when your mind is beyond your body, largely when you think you're King Kong and lift weights heavier than the body can handle.
Watching Fox, that's like watching the Cartoon Network. Fox is nuts.