January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer's forehead.

The day after that wedding night I found that a distance of a thousand miles, abyss and discovery and irremediable metamorphosis, separated me from the day before.

It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.

If I can't have too many truffles, I'll do without truffles.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.

Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.

By an image we hold on to our lost treasures, but it is the wrenching loss that forms the image, composes, binds the bouquet.

A woman who thinks she is intelligent demands the same rights as man. An intelligent woman gives up.

I eat a variety of foods like vegetables, fruit and beef for protein and iron.

I'll take any story if it's good.

The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.

Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.

You know, I can be the happiest man in the world with minimal record success.

There is nothing that is more often clothed in an attractive garb than a false creed.

When Jesus died on the cross, so did your sin; when He rose from the dead, so did your HOPE.

Just remember that a pat on the back is only 18 inches from a kick in the behind.

I hate collectors, the ones who take something just for themselves.

I have like 10 different processes I go to. My favorite one is to just go to an obscure neighborhood I haven't been to in decades and just wander around.