No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.

Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

.....what happened to my little brother had to fit into my life, not consume or define it.

What we do determines much of what happens in the world to come, not just for ourselves, but for those around us.

There are a few things that even sarcasm can't protect you from.

He likes to flirt with all the boys in the class.

The Kurds are the greatest fighting force and our strongest allies. They're Muslim.

A man may well bring a horse to water but he cannot make him drink.

I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

Be willing to give people a second chance. You'd be surprised how well people respond to another opportunity to succeed.

They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.

The more you do, the more you can do.