Home pulls. It draws you back to tell you you don't belong.

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.

Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

An angry man is twice stronger than his normal.

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most I shot.

She was Daenerys Stormborn, the Unburnt, Khaleesi and queen, Mother of Dragons, slayer of warlocks, breaker of chains, and there was no one in the world that she could trust.

Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.

Republican voters are coalescing behind [Donald] Trump, but many Republican elected officials still say they can't support him.

I hate a man who always says yes to me. When I say no I like a man who also says no.

It seems that the greatest difficulty is to find the end. Don't try to find it, it's there already.

To know yourself is the first and most important step in pursuing your dreams and goals.

You want to not have any problems.

I just had a romance that I really care about, a lot-I mean, a lot-go up in smoke. Because of the stress, and the sort of other woman that Macintosh is.