I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

You are perfectly right in objecting to them [modern art], for this one great fault - that they have not yet had time to become old.

She'd crossed into a place where truth, even if it was brutal, was all she had to offer.

It's hard to pretend you're OK. Especially when you're all by urself, alone. :'(

Self-contemplation is a curseThat makes an old confusion worse.

George Tenet has been the director of central intelligence since 1997, time enough to have changed the Agency's culture. He has failed. He should go.

You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.

As for my prediction that this phone would be a bad idea for Apple to pursue, anything can still happen. Time is a cruel mistress.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

I think reality TV is so popular because it makes everyone in the country feel like, 'Hey, I can be on TV. I can be a star overnight.' I think America also has a little voyeurism in their hearts.