It's just that it's hard to believe in greatness.

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.

They should install elevators in this place. What if they turned a handicapped person into a vampire? Talk about your discrimination lawsuit waiting to happen.

Speaking as a writer, it would be difficult to find an event in American history more dramatic and riveting than the Civil War.

Yale is a crucible in American life for the accommodation of intellectual achievement, of wisdom, of refinement, with the democratic ideals of openness, of social justice and of equal opportunity.

I'm falling into you This dream could come true And it feels so good falling into you from If You Asked Me To

I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to be a safe and secure world

I think I gravitate towards people who express themselves in a simple and funny way.

I have for many years been puzzled by the persistence of Hugh Hefner. Why is he still here?

The reason so many financial advisors are called brokers is because they are often broker than you.

If the masses are not thrown a few novels , they may react by throwing up a few barricades.