Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.