I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.

The press of my foot to the earth springs a hundred affections, They scorn the best I can do to relate them.

It's weird - sort of not terribly wise - to take a book that was successful and then change its cover.

I like to go into the studio and start work on a project when it's time. I don't like to do it too early or too late.

Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.

I am, Sir, a brother of the angle.

I love Tumblr, I love it, it's like collaging and collecting images, it's such a fun thing to do, it's something that's really therapeutic and I don't really know why.

To be a poet is a condition rather than a profession.

Falling in love is like owning a dog.

I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.