Anybody who becomes a movie star becomes successful at projecting a certain image to the public.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

The letters released something, maybe a sense that he was not alone, that the world was a place where travelers in language could know the same things.

Love is a dramatic driving force, the most powerful potion that we drink willingly.

You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's a sin to do that to a good machine.

I never thought I would live long enough to see the legal profession change to the extent it has.

Better to die once and for all, than live in continual terror.

No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff - well, it might as well be dead.

the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.

God is love; to do his will is to scatter love in handfuls of blessing on a weary world.

I've stolen a lot. Let me think about the best thing I've stolen. Stolen a lot of hearts.