A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it.

This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.

Doing nothing was as honourable as any available course of action. Think of Hamlet, think of Job, think of Jesus before Pilate.

Like all fiction, my lies are just my efforts to be truer than the truth.

I stare out at the real world projected on the windows

His suffering was no more real than he was.

Reality, it seems, is not a flat plane, but has as many veils as an onion has skins.

For someone to be perfect, they must be real, however imperfect they are.

It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them.

You need to bridge the gap between reality and freedom. Drugs are the bridge.

I feel underslept but overjoyed. Nothing feels so good as this.

There were valuable first editions of books in the enormous library, most of them had been scribbled in by some idiot named Will H.

Good or bad, habits always deliver results.

We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as though it were never to have a beginning.

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

If you've ever driven across Texas, you know how different one area of the state can be from another. Take El Paso. It looks as much like Dallas as I look like Jack Nicklaus

A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.

Resentment and anger are not good for the soul. They are foul things.

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record?

I got followed by the paparazzi because they thought I was Shannyn Sossamon.

Poetry contains nothing haphazard.