I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

I believe my friends think I'm funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

We tire differently if we love or love not.

Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.

Our job in life is not to be successful, but to be faithful.

The best person to write for is yourself—and what better place to start than in a journal.

Never to talk to ones self is a form of hypocrisy

Things take the time they take. Don't worry.

I would not wish to marry someone who had already been married. It would be,' she opined, 'like having someone else break in one's own pony.

You're right, super-realism is back in style.

It's getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry. / Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud, ' I am lonely.' / I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are, you make it hard.

I was a science fiction junkie for a long time.

Don't live in a way that makes you feel dead.