Ketika ada pilihan, kita harus memilih.

Jangan katakan 'aku mencintaimu'. Kita hanya dua makhluk kesepian yang dipertautkan oleh keadaan. Dan keadaan akan selalu berubah.

Kau tak boleh mengukur kemampuan seseorang dari usianya.

Terlambat adalah dosa besar menurut ukuran Swedia. Apa pun alasannya.

Kau tak akan pernah mengerti, memang. Aku perempuan dan kau laki-laki. Jadi, perlakukanlah aku seperti seorang perempuan. Seranglah aku! Jangan tunggu aku menyerangmu.

Well, Presiden Reagan kan sudah bilang. Bila temanmu kehilangan pekerjaan, maka kau tahu arti resesi. Dan bila giliranmu kehilangan pekerjaan, maka barulah kau tahu arti depresi.

To become better you, look nowhere else for greatness. All you need to improve and succeed are right there in you.

Matt shrugged. It was a good shrug, too. All it was missing was a beret, a stripy shirt and a Gauloise cigarette.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!

The truth is, Pavlov's dog trained Pavlov to ring this bell just before the dog salivated.

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.

One really beautiful wrist motion, that is synchronized with your head and heart, and you have it. It looks as if it were born in a minute.

Sicilians, Calabrians, Neapolitans - there were real differences between them, and then all of a sudden they're all living in the US, and then they're all Italians.

The last thing I want to be known as is 'The Girl Who Got Raped'. The big turn around you make in your head is from victim to survivor.

Novelists who get shitty about screenwriting invariably can't do it, or they can't hack it in the world of what's really, in truth, very bold and very public enterprise.