In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

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.

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.

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.

Most of the things that give life its depth, meaning, and value are impervious to science.

Bear it in mind that when you have no brand, “no brand” is your brand and that’s a negative brand!

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

Communication is vital when it comes to excelling in the workplace and in your personal relationships.

I plan to die at my desk.

Bringing jobs back to Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania and all the places that have lost their jobs. That's already happening. I think you're gonna see tremendous job growth in this country.

We're going to have a real border, because we're going to have a wall.

And now he's down this for me. He's made me famous. He's put my name on the world.

Look at each day as a chance to invest life into life. A chance to share your experience and deposit it into someone else's conscience. Each day is a chance to work miracles in the lives of others.