I don't think you have the right to shout about other people's private life.

To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.

People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else

The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.

Swimming always cleans your soul

It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

Government should never be able to do anything you can't do. If you can't steal from your neighbor, you can't send the government to steal for you.

Being a mother was like being trapped in the first fifteen minutes of a horror film. Everything was fine, lovely. But there was this persistent sense of dread.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

I don't really know why I'm such an emotional person, that's just how I was born. It's a problem. It's not easy to be married to me.

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

I learn fast and I take note of what I've been told.

Hillary Clinton has done amazing things and she's not done yet.

I do not consider myself the most stylish rapper out there.

After a stroke we can re-learn how to talk, because by practicing we can establish different pathways in the brain, circumnavigating the damaged part.

Once the cameras rolling or the audience is in the seats, I'm on. I can't help it. I go into a trance.