I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

Most novelists I know went through a period of intense self-examination and self-loathing after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. I certainly did.

I keep myself busy with things to do, but every-time i pause, i still think f you.

I do stand up sometimes out of anger. Sometimes the greatest stuff comes from a dark place.

An investor doesn’t have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.

Ours is the Spirit of the Eucharist, the total Gift of Self.

I started faster today which was good. I returned well but my serve was good, which was the key. I think I'm getting used to the conditions.

When I say 'I am a Christian', I'm not shouting 'I'm saved'. I'm whispering 'I get lost'. That is why I chose this way.

What I know is that taxation, as far as liberal Democrats are concerned, is not about money. It's about power.

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

Falsehood avails itself of haste and uncertainty.

The gods, after all, are only human, and once their rage has been placated they are perfectly capable of acts of mercy and grace.