Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you.

I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

The manifest of gratitude is hundred-fold blessings.

You love me?''Baby, you were made for me.

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.

I feel at home up in the air, just like sailors do at sea and climbers do in the mountains.

People still tell me I’m fat, but when I look in the mirror, that’s not what I see.

Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.

If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.

I went to public school in L.A., so I felt like I'd been in a coma for three years. I woke up, and moved to New York.