A token of love comes in a box because love itself cannot be contained.

I leave off mid-sentence, and then can finish it the next day with less anxiety expended than for a new thought.

The moral of the story is this: sometimes, to do nothing, to do nothing at all, is the sorriest thing ever.

Taking risks gives me energy.

Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.

Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life.

The wrongs of a Husband or Master are not reproached.

Behind every fortune there is a crime.

I don't think so, and that's partly the problem of not checking cargo, and it's partly the problem of biological weapons, which nobody has figured out really what to do about yet.

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

I wanted to make a body of work that looked at what it felt like to be a boy going through adolescence.

Exposure as a propagandist is fatal to the would-be persuader.

Everything they do, from smiling to crying, feels like a blessing. Being a father feels amazing. This has been the most spiritual moment in my life.