I'm like a head trip to listen to, 'cause I'm only givin' you things you joke about with your friends inside your living room. The only difference is I got the balls to say it in front of y'all.

The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether. But the novel is the one bright book of life.

The weight of evidence for an extraordinary claim must be proportioned to its strangeness.

There are no second acts in American lives.