In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury.
Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival.
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
To achieve the impossible; it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought.
At the typewriter you find out who you are.
If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
