Marriage wrecks any decent relationship.

I have a million nightingales on the branches of my heart singing freedom.

I never took the bus. Never. Walking meant you were eccentric or pious or a loser - riding the bus meant you were insane or masochistic and worse than a loser.

The broken spine of the book shows the webbing of binder's string, and my fingers have worn white spots in the cover.

My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance company where she worked and asked for a loan.

I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.

May the broken hearted be healed.

The only difference between a suicide and a martyrdom really is the amount of press coverage.

Man goeth to his long home and the mourners go about the streets.

I am a sucker for jackets!

What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.

Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing.

Practice only makes for improvement.

If an idea cannot move on its own, pushing it doesn't help; best to let it lie there.

We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.