New York exists for me. Not me for it.

I just realized that I never look at a painting and ask, 'Is this painting fictional or non-fictional?' It’s just a painting.

Writing should be like skirts. Long enough to cover what it needs to cover and short enough to maintain interest.

Samuel Clemens isn't Mark Twain. Mark Twain is Mark Twain. He doesn't become the thing until he creates himself.

I have no interest in being a trained ballerina. People should dance how they want to dance. I want to be the funky chicken.

We like something because someone else liked it.

It's like that where these little anecdotes come through, and I guess that's what I like about books like that [He Stopped Loving Her Today]. Fiction now is so experiential.

The things that I have loved have always been those extremes where there has been some kind of apocalypse in the person's life, and they come out unscathed or scathed.

So much of our culture is bought and manufactured - not to say great art can't come out of that. Some art is really amazing that is manufactured and sold, like action movies and stuff.

I guess the things I have always loved are from people who were just being themselves. They were doing these things because they couldn't do it any other way. It was for them.

I think maybe it's my personality. People don't like my face.

She is like the white skies, the shine, the sun and its rhyme.While he is the darkness that blinds, the moon, the wolf in mysterious confines.

Christians are to be “the light of the world” [Matthew 5:14], illuminating the darkness caused by sin and giving guidance to a world that has lost its way.

If you can't be yours while being mine, maybe you aren't as yours as you'd like to convince yourself that you are.

Life is precious. We should not take anything for granted. Living every moment as if it was our first and last is a genuine life of gratitude, acceptance and wisdom.

The survival of love depends on the management of change.

I lost you when you left me to find yourself.

I don't want to be the biggest or the best, I want to be faithful.

"Some things may change," said Wednesday, abruptly. "People, however... People stay the same."

Typically, we make money when we buy things. We count the profits later, but we know we have captured them when we buy the bargain.

What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose.