I want to pretend there's such a thing as requited love. As the endurance of love.

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.

she slammed the door andwas gone.I looked at the closed doorand at the doorknoband strangelyI didn't feelalone.

Follow your heart. Just don't get lost.

Current science and technology have unlocked all mysteries.We make sense of it in a gradual process under law and order.

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist.

The future is a monotonous instrument

The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.

I now deserve love. romance, and joy - and all the good that Life has to offer me.

I don't believe in atheists.

I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. .

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.