As to the past, I would not mind retrieving from various corners of space-time certain lost comforts, such as baggy trousers and long, deep bathtubs.

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.

Each guy stamped the passport of my heart. “You’re worthy.” Stamp. “You’re enough.” “You have not failed completely.” Stamp, stamp.

Forgiveness is not death. It is life.

I love dress shopping, and I love talking about the wedding food. That's what makes me happy.

I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.

I guess I really haven't thought much about winning an Oscar, but if I had the opportunity, I'm sure I would like it.

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

A snake bite emergency kit is a body bag.

When the ladies see an athlette walking around, they think, Well, he got the cocaine, so let's go get high with him.

When you have no defensiveness about what you think but rather you totally believe it, you are passionate about it.

To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.