A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

The brain may take advice, but not the heart.

Trust is the delusion of truth with ill fated consequences

Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.

I think people deny themselves by putting themselves into categories.

I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way.

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

I love San Francisco. It would be a perfect place for a honeymoon.

I'm obsessed with fresh breath.

When you're indie and you have your hands on yourself and you're not working for someone, you're working with someone and you're dealing with them, it's a totally different feeling involved.

I think I made you up inside my head.

I'm not a huge fan of my work.