Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.

History is changed by martyrs who tell the truth.

To be an honest writer, you have to be away from home, and totally alone in life.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

Literature is an ethical leap. It is a moral decision. A perilous exercise in constant failure. Literature should have grievances, because there are so many grievances in the world.

Angst is not the human condition, it’s the purgatory between what we have and what we want but can’t get.

Love and honesty don’t mix.

Oh, sweetheart. What can anyone do? That's just the way things are. You really think you can change the world?

I transform fiction into memory.

Perhaps we have stopped ourselves from being invented, from self-realization, by blaming others for our wordlessness.

Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we’ll be.

I made up my mind not to care so much about the destination, and simply enjoy the journey.

All stories are, in some form, prayers.

Make us love and obey you so that the works of our hands may always display what your hands have done, until we gaze upon the beauty of your face.

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

To sacrifice the moral to the physical, as is done in these days, is to sacrifice reality for a shadow.

There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.

I've often stopped working for long periods.

Anxiety and gratitude cant live in the same head

You know I think I could give a little more back to charity.

You have to have a passionate opinion; otherwise you sound false. You end up telling the audience jokes they've already heard.