Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.

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.

What are five things you are grateful for? Right now? Open to gratitude and you will soften into joy.

All writers are waiting for replies. That’s what I’ve learned. Maybe all human beings are

a good product is not the secret to success

Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

Altruism is a brief phase through which some adolescents must pass. It is rather like acne. Happily, as with acne, only a few are permanently scarred.

nobody ever stops drinking until the cost of drinking becomes higher than the cost of not drinking.

I don't watch that much football... I really like to play it.

I think the first time [Dre] did [biten me]. We cried together. I assumed he did. I assumed that would be the first and last time. I learned that it wasn't.

How much finer things are in composition than alone.