A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.

In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you.

We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.

What isn't said is as important as what is said.

Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.

A society manufactures the heroes it requires.

Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.

Life is not just something that happens to us it has its lessons for us.

I really need to restructure my life so I can spend more time reading abstracts and less time punching dinosaurs."- Atomic Robo

For a long while she only looked at him ... as if she didn't want to interrupt the beautiful moment with words.

The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

There'd never been a clothing line made by a young woman like me: a multiethnic woman who has one foot in Gucci and one foot in the ghetto.

FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.

We're lucky to be in the middle of a TV renaissance. It's the healthiest storytelling medium in our culture.

When you are playing a detective, particularly as a woman, you either are going to embrace the fact that it's a man's world you are jumping into, or you're going to ignore it.

Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.