Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.

Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.

I get a warm feeling among my books.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

It is not what happens to people that is significant, but what they think happens to them.

One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.

One passes through the world knowing few, if any, of the important things about even the people with whom one has been from time to time in the closest intimacy.

Parents. . . are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfil the promise of their early years.

He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Selflove seems so often unrequited.

Books do furnish a room.

I wish i could tell you what i feel for you... nothing seems right not even you... i wish i could ask him to make everything normal...

A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

The most exhausting thing you can do is to be inauthentic.

Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.

I don't know what to say. I've always been a prepared loser.

Twitter is crack for media addicts.

Certainly accountability of government is what people are clamoring for; they want to know that when lawmakers make a promise or a proposal, you can actually accomplish it.

I always have a few different books going at once.

When you sit, everything sits with you.

The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.