Inez and I had been in the same book club for a while. She once told me that literary theory was reading without imagination, and I’ve loved her ever since.

A lack of narrative structure, as you know, will cause anxiety.

Love your soul mate with all your heart and body.

Love and magic have a great deal in common. they enrich the soul, delight the heart. And they both take practice.

Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

It takes a lot more than ability to run fast; it takes the ability to keep coming back and coming back.

The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!

I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone.

It's not your word that matters, it's who you give it too.

Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.

No, I'm a man with a rule. People leave me alone, I leave them alone. If they don't, I don't.