No man should be asked to live with so much sadness, and with so little promise of relief.

But writers and their woes: they couldn't be parted. Not for anything.

Children, Hadley thinks to herself, children are more civilised than this gang on the sauce.

She kissed him but he didn't seem to recognize it.

The hangover: such a cure, she thinks, for overthinking.

Talents too many, not enough of any.

The longer I don't write, the more I hurt.

I want to be a good man, a good writer.""Be one or the other, Ernest, not both.

Ernest chose to go, she finally thinks, watching the fire turn the papers black. He loved her but he could not live anymore.

Martha thanks Sylvia, gesturing with the book. "Just remember not to try to hard with understanding it, " Sylvia says. "Like people, they're best not to be too thoroughly understood.

Paris without a good book is like a pretty girl with only one eye.

The day you leave, this will be your only contentment: if you have made the existence a little more beautiful.

I love Norse mythology - Thor and Odin and Loki - amazing characters.

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

Left to my own devices, my first inclination is to mess in other people's lives. I secretly believe my whole family, and really the whole world, is my responsibility.

I became an ecologist long before I had ever heard the word.

The keenest pangs the wretched find Are rapture to the dreary void, The leafless desert of the mind, The waste of feelings unemployed.

A brand is a person’s gut feeling about a product, service or organization

Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it's an inanimate object.

Everything I think is in pictures.