If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.

When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don’t have to move an inch.

As my mother once said to me, ‘They’re quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.

Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.

In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.

Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.

You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.

A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.

There is no weather in malls.

Beauty was a bait, love was the trap, I was the pray.. fallen for the most beautiful predator..

It’s better to be sworn to an honest fool than to a lying scholar

I knew, regardless of anything else, singing in front of an orchestra was going to be inspirational. It would feed me.

Im still an idealist. My manager is always trying to talk me out of it, but thats just the way I am.

The people who go the craziest when they hear the name 'Hemingway' are my English teachers!

To me there is no such thing as creative writing. It's either good writing, whatever the subject, or it's not creative.

Paying attention to simple little things that most men neglect makes a few men rich.

There are some nasty, nasty incidents taking place in the world, but [it's] much better than it used to be.

Do not that to another, which thou wouldst not have done to thyself.