"I like it that the dead don't talk. If they did, the past would be even more unbearable than it already is."

"The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted."

"The America I grew up in was a country that made things. It made cars and steel and refrigerators and washing machines and television sets. Now we make money. We make money by moving money around."

"And I say, 'If you're going to be a writer, for God's sake, write.'"

"We are all prisoners of our own minds."