It is always an accident that saves us. It is someone we have never seen.

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

Love must wait; it must break one’s bones.

Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave

Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.

I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible.

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

Love is God’s medicine.” ~ Amunhotep El Bey

I am not afraid I was born to do this.

Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people believe.

no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And then one fine morning—So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

I want my clients to trust me.

When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

Instead of wiping away your tears, wipe the people who make you cry.