I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a different way and then you realize it's a lot after all!

Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.

This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

Understand that success is not an accident, but a planned event.

It is not the chains of some tyrant that robs us of freedom. Rather, it is the staleness of our attitude.

Smile and the world smiles with you...Weep and you weep alone.

For me they are no different, reality and dreams.

I am ambivalent about London because I am so ambivalent about England in general.

A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.

We get to experience the same thing in very different ways with different parts of ourselves.

I played teen roles until high definition came out.

Every child needs at least one adult who is irrationally crazy about him or her.

No wild enthusiast could rest, till half the world like him was possessed.