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

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.

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.

The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.

You will be successful if you are focused on your work

Those who have become great have only discovered something that the rest of the world has not discovered.

There must be something I am doing that will make sense to somebody some day.

No man may make another free.

To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.

If you see anyone from about sixteen to sixty-five and they’re male, shoot ’em. Kill every male you see.

Once you play a tournament, you're playing against the golf course, you're playing against yourself and trying to do the best you can.

First life, then spaces, then buildings - the other way around never works.

If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it.

Nerves are normal. You can't be cured from them unless you're a machine.