Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don’t have to move an inch.

As my mother once said to me, ‘They’re quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.

Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.

In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.

Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.

You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.

If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.

When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.

A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.

There is no weather in malls.

Don't ignore me. I only get more annoying.

Spain has some of the richest culinary traditions and truly appreciates food that is simply prepared with top-notch ingredients.

Everything that could be said already has; I'm just trying to say it differently.

Clarify your purpose. What is the why behind everything you do? When we know this in life or design it is very empowering and the path is clear.

Most of the time, actors respond to the thing thats so far from who they are. We all want to play the serial killer and the ex-con.

But Obama is a cool cat. We've seen that before: when he suffered reverses he didn't react immediately. He took a couple of days to react.

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

Failure is part of the process of success.

We have already reprogrammed the way men are raised, and we have done that drastically, I think. That's what I mean when I talk about the chickification of everything.

There is the same difference in a person before and after he is in love, as there is in an unlighted lamp and one that is burning.