My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.

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.

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

The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath.

"If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all," was how I was raised, and how I lived for most of my life.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

All central beliefs on human matters spring from a personal predicament.

Look back on your wedding And be filled with joy and pride Deservedly so, for the many years You've flourished, side by side

I used to write as an escape. There's no escape. There's just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo.

the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

There is a story behind every person, a reason why they are the way they are. Don't be quick to judge. Be kind and assume the best.

Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. -Maggie

Everything yields to diligence.