He was evidently the sort of person who posed questions that were traps for you to fall into.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.

There's always next level, new decisions, and new episode. My life inspired by challenges

Mums are mums, lance-constable. They don't like to see men managing by themselves, in case that sort of thing catches on.

Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none.

The realization of God's presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.

She is stunned that in this town there are no sidewalks to speak of, no streetlights, no public transportation, no stores for miles at at a time.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

The first thing I ever wanted to be was a backup singer for Guns 'n' Roses.

Truth is that the best ideas are often psychotic, obscene and unoriginal.

What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at."