Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

Let us take heed how we laugh without reason, lest we cry with it.

I smile at every circumstance that comes my way because I don't expected life to be an easy journey.

Work alone is noble.

I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room.

-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

I go to my past in order to discern the future.

You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.

Eating sundaes is something you can't do every night.

I couldn't see his face, because the light came in from behind him and he was in shadow, and he said, "I am Picasso." And I said, "Well, so what?

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.