It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something.

You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.

The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.

Never trust a man with a lunatic wife in an attic, " Richard told me. "And anyone named Heathcliff should make you suspicious.

That's okay, " I said. "We're writers. We make things up.

You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice.

Small towns may revile you, but they have to keep you-they can't turn you away.

Novels are just another kind of cross-dressing, aren't they?

[Jesus] said, “Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are ill.…For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners” (Matt. 9:10-13). Jesus opened up God’s heart to men.

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.

It's not a drug problem, until you run out of money. Until then it's just drugs.

For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.

Premature development of the powers of both mind and body leads to an early grave.

Life is a struggle and a good spy gets in there and fights.

If you are good for nothing else, you can still serve as a bad example.

Shooting in New York can be a problem... I had to walk through a crowd, come in the front door, and play the scene.

To reach an audacious goal, we sometimes benefit from having it lie just beyond our grasp.