Never trust a man with a lunatic wife in an attic, " Richard told me. "And anyone named Heathcliff should make you suspicious.

You can learn a lot from your lovers, but-for the most part-you get to keep your friends longer, and you learn more from them.

Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.

Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.

It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something.

The time to read Madame Bovary is when your romantic hopes and desires have crashed, and you will believe that your future relationships will have disappointing - even devastating - consequences.

That's okay, " I said. "We're writers. We make things up.

You can't possibly know that you're going to be a writer!" Miss Frost said. "It's not a career choice.

Small towns may revile you, but they have to keep you-they can't turn you away.

Novels are just another kind of cross-dressing, aren't they?

Sometimes the sound of silence is the most deafening sound of all.

You are the language so universalyou are forgottenBe my linguistTurn meinto your words.

You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.

The Republicans proved they are not the party of 'no.' They're the party of 'f**k, no!'

I have filled 3 Mead notebooks trying to figure out whether it was Them or Just Me.

Goals should be impossible! You should tread FEARLESSLY where the brave dare not go.

Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.

Kitsch lends itself to a definition in terms of a systematic attempt to fly from daily reality: in time and in space.

Marry a good woman, and be happy the rest of your life. Or, marry a bad, and become a good philosopher

My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.