Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world’s muteness.

No men can save himself, that's why Jesus was nailed on the cross.

Right person suffers a lot than wrong person in that place where injustice is called justice.

The final portrait is often furthest from the truth.

Romanticism is the expression of man's urge to rise above reason and common sense just as rationalism is the expression of his urge to rise above theology and emotion.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity we should not distort it.

The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have read.

I think that I need to learn a lot, a lot.

You see, I don't know how to ride a motorcycle, actually.

If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.

I love being photographed, I love the ramp.