I don't really do very well when I'm sent somewhere. A lot of magazines want to send you somewhere to do something. They want you to stow away on a ship, or something like that.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

Ultimate meaning is meaningless. Meaning meaning means everything else.

Left side, he is injured. Hold me close right.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

Dream, Dream Dream Dreams transform into thoughts And thoughts result in action.

The most rewarding things you do in life are often the ones that look like they cannot be done.

You know what happens to girls who loves lost boys? They become lost themselves.

Where your will is ready, your feet are light.

Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture: to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it, to work hard, and to obtain good advice.

In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.

Stop short of your appetite; eat less than you are able.