Walter Kirn

A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not…

— Walter Kirn

On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't…

— Walter Kirn

“How soon human beings forget what a privilege it is to live in freedom. A privilege, not an honor. An honor would…

— Walter Kirn

“The mist just keeps on lifting and soon I'll be able to see all the way, as far as the earth's curvature…

— Walter Kirn

“Clark was bulging with lies when I saw him two weeks later. They danced out of his mouth as though they'd been…

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“We're a telephone family, strung out along the wires, sharing our news in loops and daisy chains. We don't meet face-to-face much,…

— Walter Kirn

Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what…

— Walter Kirn

“Leslie Titmuss bothered me. His name, it made me want to sneeze. I also thought I recognized it. I typed it into…

— Walter Kirn

A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday'…

— Walter Kirn

I've noticed that the few times I've traveled first class myself, you've already got your drink, and your coat has been taken…

— Walter Kirn

We're all impostors to ourselves. By that I mean that we know instinctively, intimately, the difference between whom we are inside and…

— Walter Kirn

Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,'…

— Walter Kirn

In America, to be ID'd - sorted, tagged, and permanently filed - is to lose a bit of one's soul. To die…

— Walter Kirn

However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly,…

— Walter Kirn

I disagree that Blood Will Out is a memoir in the conventional sense. It's the story of a relationship, primarily, not an…

— Walter Kirn

I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in -…

— Walter Kirn

Thanks to Twitter, iPads, BlackBerrys, voice-activated in-dash navigation systems, and a hundred other technologies that offer distraction anywhere, anytime, boredom has loosened…

— Walter Kirn