I'm certainly eclectic in my writing.

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?

What business does memory have with time?

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

The impulse to touch her and all the life in her was something I had to check regularly.

Don't expect life to serve you what you expect. Just enjoy the buffet.

…hate's got to be a disease with me.

But what Jamie was saying just mixed it all up, selfish and selfless. I wasn't even sure what the words meant anymore. or if it was possible to be one without the other.

I am sometimes more doubt than man.

Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.

Every man loves and admires his own country because it produced him.

Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?" "Not such a waste of time as talking to you!

You can do a lot more good with money than without it.

There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.