Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having even if the parting has to come sooner or later.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

Live every single moment of your life, for the one thing that is most precious to you.

But when she finally did look up, I realized my fatal mistake. That by not leaping for her when she jumped, she thought that I no longer wanted to catch her.

Fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion.

A gentleman need not know Latin but he should at least have forgotten it.

All fiction for me is a kind of magic and trickery, a confidence trick, trying to make people believe something is true that isn't.

Ohh! Wow!! Ohh!! Wow!! Those the only two words you know? Sounds like a dirty movie.

Actors are good liars; writers are good liars with good memories.

As we say in Portugal, they brought the bus and they left the bus in front of the goal.

Fox News is worse than al Qaeda. It's as dangerous as the Ku Klux Klan.

Spread the love of God through your life but only use words when necessary.