Now that I had actually made love, more astonishingly now that I had been made love to, the fantasies were subtly undermined.

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.

I like things to reverberate, to be suggestive.

What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material.

The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had

He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

I was rather a goody-goody as a child... It was only later on I discovered that you could be naughty and get away with it.

...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.

To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.

My life is never influenced by death because I am full of resurrections after so many spiritual and emotional demises

There’s a land—oh, it beckons and beckons, And I want to go back—and I will.

There's evidence that one of the Paris attackers may have entered Europe posing as a refugee.

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

A person can be danced. In all continents the dancers carry little children on their shoulders.

Thus art is not an object, it is an experience.

Kids should read whatever they want to read. So I'm hoping that just like 15-year-olds read "Summer Sisters," I'm hoping that they'll read this.

Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

In autumn, don't go to jewellers to see gold; go to the parks!

I've been watching 'Game of Thrones,' and I can't wait for 'Bored to Death' to come back, it's one of my faves.