How am I, a writer, supposed to feel about having lost you to a reader?

Now what I like about lit is that though you feel you know the characters involved, you don’t – you get all the benefits of having a relationship, with none of the mess.

Forget the fictional characters – how many authors are being stopped on the street?

sometimes the past is the best memories you lived ever cause it'll never repeat again

A graceful and honorable old age is the childhood of immortality.

Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief.

We have to be that wedge that drives the question and asks the hard questions

If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun.

Now at last I know why I was brought here and what I have to do.

Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of a splendid happiness.

I make faces for cash and chicken.

You can tell by the applause: There's perfunctory applause, there's light applause, and then there's real applause. When it's right, applause sounds like vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce.

For a driver to be driven by somebody else is an ordeal, for there are only three types of drivers: the too fast, the timid and oneself.