A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Death was a lens that would reveal things as they really were: what was important would assume its true importance what was unimportant would recede into the shadows.

God has individuals He has positioned for His purpose and to be used as His vessel at different time and season.

Thinking and planning is one side of life

I'm really into fashion.

It's rough to feel creatively satisfied, as an actor, for the most part, because you don't initiate your own work.

His reputation preceded him before he got here.

Some of the best fiction writers got their start writing airline menus.

Innocence has a single voice that can only say over and over again, "I didn't do it." Guilt has a thousand voices, all of them lies.

In terms of the fantasy wedding thing, I can kind of cross off the island beach thing. Maybe at sunset or something.

Simply the thing that I am shall make me live.