Birth and death: there was the same consciousness of heightened existence and of her own elevated importance

Sometimes, if she simply remained quiet, and let the inadequacy of his excuses reverberate on the air, he became ashamed and backtracked.

She seemed to think that one of the perks of marriage was that it gave you rights of comment and intrusion over single people's love lives.

He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.

He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.

Choice was dangerous: you had to forgo all other possibilities when you chose.

She was half running away from the hall, and she knew that she had done something cataclysmic, and she wanted nothing more than to be swallowed up by the darkness and to disappear forever.

Enough pain makes a coward of anyone.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.

We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true.

The central idea of poetry is the idea of guessing right, like a child.

Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.

If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.

You can teach people a lot about craft and various techniques, and you can certainly teach them to appreciate, but you cannot give them spirit or soul if it's not there.

The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.

Now I know that that is just the phenomena of eating this way. Most all of my letters say I hit a plateau and then one morning I woke up and the melt had happened.