I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

I hate how the people who really get you are the ones you can never hold on to for very long. And the ones who don’t understand you at all stick around.

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.

Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.

Always live your life with your biography in mind.

Sovereign. Deadly. Perfect.

It's a common feeling for people to feel intermittent antipathy toward individuals they're familiar with.

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

We are not born with a need for knowledge, but a hunger for it. Eve bit the apple and it has been gluttony ever since.

The most effective coquetry is innocence.

I'm not dismissing prostitutes, but a lot has changed. This so-called gentrification, it can never be stopped.

I love soccer; I want to be on the field.

A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.

It was a damned good thing men couldn’t have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the human race would have died out generations earlier.

My appointed work is to awaken the divine nature that is within.

You don't really work together with Clint Eastwood. I mean, he takes the script and he shoots it - and he shoots it very faithfully.

There are lots of actors, and you need a way to stand out. Writing comedy sketches was a way of doing that.