I've always had a way with the little people, making it a point to humor them without looking down my nose at their wasted empty lives.

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.

Don't tell me the moon is shining

Never underestimate the power of a simple thought.

Writing is a wonderful way to spend the day. Particularly when the alternative is housework!

The rose does not have a why; it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision.

There is enough in the world for everyone to have plenty, to live happily, and to be at peace with his neighbors.

Polar north can't get away from a magnet; the magnet finds it, no matter what.

My mum told me always to wear heels. If I'm not wearing heels, she says, 'What? You're in flats?' So whenever I see her, I make sure I have heels with me.

Freedom, where are you? Who holds you back? [...] The mother of wit and pleasure, Oh freedom!

Being alive is being aware, being able to be touched and moved and changed, being able to respond rather than to react, being able to see and hear.

CD's are amazing because you get the artwork, you get to look at the lyrics, you get to look at the behind-the-scenes photos or something.