Don't make your own life your project in your own life: total waste of time.

Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.

This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

Grades and Marks do not reflect the intelligence of individuals. Intelligence differs person to person and cannot be measure at the same scale.

It was a hot, moist armpit of a night...

Important decisions that will affect a nation’s fate or humanity’s fate cannot be left to the referendums! Because such decisions require good knowledge of history

My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice.

Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow.

It's pointless to be critical of your stuff once it's done. I don't spend a lot of time agonising over it. It's of no importance once it's finished.

Don't be precious about anything-much less a certain guitar sound. There is always another interesting sound or effect just waiting to be discovered.

That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.