Dear Mother, I meant to write you before this and I hope you haven't been worried.... I have met some Beautiful People and...

A cult is a religion with no political power.

Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.

I still believe nonfiction is the most important literature to come out of the second half of the 20th century.

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

If a conservative is a liberal who's been mugged, a liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.

It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.

The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened.

Love is the most valuable gift that you can give to anyone from your heart.

I am loving. I am forgiving.I am at peace.

I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.

Every man is a hero of his own story.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

A Complicated Kindness is just that: funny and strange, spellbinding and heartbreaking, this novel is a complicated kindness from a terrifically talented writer.

A hobby is the result of a distorted view of things. It is putting a planet in the place of a sun.

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

Being an entrepreneur is simply going from one mistake to the next. You must have the fortitude to continue on.

Imagination, not intelligence, made us human.