My pain is constant and sharp, and I do not hope for a better world for anyone.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

Take chances! Get messy! Make mistakes!

Don't let them tell us stories

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action.

World-view is a product of life-view, not vice versa.

History, in the end, becomes a form of irony.

We are thinking, willing, knowing, conscious centers of Life. We are surrounded by, immersed in, and there is flowing through us, a creative Something ... call It what you will.

I don't think anyone sees truth for a simple reason: we aren't static.

I'm simultaneously terrified of the thought of existing forever and not existing at all. Wherein is my peace?

A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.

Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall die.