He insisted on a single trade secret: that you had to survive, find some quiet, and work hard every day.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore.

I do not want India to be an economic superpower. I want India to be a happy country.

Ideas have enormous consequences in a person's life because you ultimately become what you believe.

I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.

I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.

Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

That's wonderful, but my mind has been destroyed by alcohol.

I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year.

The only good government... Is a bad one in a hell of a fright.

You can lose yourself in pleasure, 'til your body's going numb, but will it ever be enough.