Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs.

If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.

...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.

Trees're always a relief, after people.

But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.

There no such thing as something! Why? Because everything's already turning into something else!

Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over, you look a sad saddo if you don't.

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you’re afraid of them.

Photos’re better than nothing, but things’re better than photos ’cause the things themselves were part of what was there.

Poems are lenses, mirrors, and X-ray machines.

Fire’s the sun, unwindin’ itself out o’ the wood.

My love for you spans over the lines of my past, present, and future. You are what I love remembering, what I love experiencing, and what I love looking forward to.

Why should I be afraid to trust myself to you? I am not afraid, I have been well brought forward by you...

After each customer interaction, notice if you gave them a “happy to see you” kind of experience.

You guys going up? Yes, yes, we go up. You may be going a lot higher than you think!

The first impulse of a great number of civilized musicians... is to protest ourdeclaration that the music in Hungary belongs to the Gypsies.

We justly consider women to be weaker than ourselves, and yet we are governed by them.

I loved college. I wish I was still taking classes instead of teaching them.

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

Artists aren't really people. And I'm actually 40 per cent papier mache.

Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.