I don't understand how you can be a decent writer and not know people.

Our brains are like bonsai trees, growing around our private versions of reality.

Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who know where their high school yearbook is and those who do not.

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

Unless you are a professional, you will find the tart to be a high-maintenance, unforgiving whistle-blower of a pastry.

I would gladly have accepted a heaping spoonful of nepotism when I got out of college and was looking for a job.

Book tours are such a little tapas meal of where I could live.

No affair that begins with such an orchestrated overture can end on a simple note.

Uniqueness is wasted on youth. Like fine wine or a solid flossing habit, you'll be grateful for it when you're older.

I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.

I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good

If you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure then believe.

[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.

They should call fishing what it really is... tricking and killing!

Sometimes a man does what he'd most like to avoid.

Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

It was really fun to bring that scene to life. I can't wait to see it at the premiere with the fans.

But it’s compounded by the fact that I love animals and feel better not eating them.

When we travel, we are like a film at the moment of exposure; it is memory that will develop it.