In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
ADAM GOPNIKThat they chose the path of the mind suggests that there is on it something more worthwhile than a circuitous route to the good things that the good-looking get just by showing up
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The blankness invites scribbling on, mental drawing , and the best feeling I know – apart from the more obvious sensual ones – is the feeling of putting down the first thought and seeing it turn into symbols.
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The special virtue of freedom is not that it makes you richer and more powerful but that it gives you more time to understand what it means to be alive.
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For a first look at someone we may sleep with, or a last look at someone we love.
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Sometimes having a good time can be the outward evidence of a deep re-thinking.
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There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.
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Writing doesn’t come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency
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Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.
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Love, like light, is a thing that is enacted better than defined: we know it afterward by the traces it leaves on paper.
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The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.
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Making an idea into an emotion.
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If I were a devout Mormon, I would be offended by a lot of things that go on in “The Book Of Mormon,” right?
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It’s really our relief at no longer having to do things we were never good at doing in the first place – relief at never again having to dissect a frog or memorize the periodic table.
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The trick and the trap and the horror is not faith, Scott. I don’t think the trap and the horror is fanaticism.
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Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
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Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
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