Children, who have yet to learn our ways, are notoriously promiscuous in their affection. They’ll sit on anyone’s knee.

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

The shadows along the streets were personal, and, every passing day, they seemed to grow longer and hungrier

Aggressiveness, complaints, pressures, drama and polemics can wipe out a favor or a promise and stain a generous deed.

Just like you need to strengthen your core physically with exercise, you also need to strength your core spiritually.

I'd love to have a great relationship with my father. And unfortunately... I don't.

The essence is that many procrastinators are "structured procrastinators," people who, like me, get a lot done as a way of not working on what they should ideally be working on.

a windy March is lucky. Every pint of March dust brings a peck of September corn, and a pound of October cotton.

Who can separate his faith from his actions, or his belief from his occupations?

The rest of the world is growing so quickly, they'll be looking for anything to buy.

A broken spoon may be a fork in disguise.