History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.

Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.

Love and honesty don’t mix.

Oh, sweetheart. What can anyone do? That's just the way things are. You really think you can change the world?

I transform fiction into memory.

Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.

Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we’ll be.

The young man murmured in his sleep and said, “Dear Sparrow, ” and Sparrow felt, for the first time, how the purest joy could be a heaviness.

If you never stop trying you'll never give up. If you never give up you'll never stop trying.

Time gives our lives numerous opportunities demarcated into moments that allow us to connect the dots while looking back.

Fear is the most insidious of weaknesses. You must learn to raze it from your soul, or risk defeat in all you do.

I love the idea of being part of a campaign that captures the spirit of New York and the stories of women here, passionate about their dreams.

And he nipped them in the bud, right at the end

The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.

Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax.

Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever.

We are simply human beings. So it is important for us to treat each other in that capacity.