I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Do not give your heart to that which does not satisfy your heart.

The more we serve, the more strength, we receive to keep the good deeds.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

Doubt is a necessary precondition tomeaningful action. Fear is the great mover in the end.

I'm not much like myself any more.

Hopefully, nations will refuse to accept a situation in which nuclear accidents actually do occur, and, if at all possible, they will do something to correct a system which makes them likely.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude

I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

Trolling is an ancient problem. It's been around as long as there has been media.