My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?

Smartass Disciple: Master, tell me what is it beyond this universe ?Master of Stupidity: No 'space' in no 'gravity'. No 'thing' in spaceless.

Live to avoid all the numerous field mines of life.

I'm a typical California boy.

Everyone thinks Angelina Jolie was the first celebrity baby hoarder, but she wasn't. Before Angelina there was Mia Farrow. Mia had an entire farm full of children. I think she got them at Costco.

Gambling is a catalyst for economic downturn

The individual is losing significance; his destiny is no longer what interests us.

If all you're trying to do is essentially the same thing as your rivals, then it's unlikely that you'll be very successful.

Trump appeals to right-wingnuts because when the going gets tough, they wig out.