Occasionally, in the middle of a conversation her name would be mentioned, and she would run down the steps of a chance sentence, without turning her head.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Music is a writer's heartbeat.

Sometimes words are just a crude translation of love.

O God guide my steps in every circumstance.

To rejoice in conquest is to rejoice in murder.

I'm not frightened of a bit of silence.

You just see a good project and want to be involved in it, and thats what Dexter was.

Thousands and thousands of colors paint the bosom of the earth so gaily.

Am I looking at a mask or am I the mask being looked at?

Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity.

What I'm most excited about is that there's an openness to a shift, and I do think that there's a shift happening.