Personally I've never put much store by honesty- I mean how can you trust a word whose first letter you don't even pronounce

Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.

This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

Over preparation paralyzes ideas

He was a black hole to anyone who might imagine that he or she was a friend of his.

A happy birthday is measured not in the amount of gifts one gets, but in the amount love one receives.

As an early child, I tried to play every kind of music that I heard. I thought everyone was doing that.

Don't be afraid to let her into your heart and when your down, don't try to carry the whole world on your shoulders.

I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day?

The key to learning is feedback. It is nearly impossible to learn anything without it.

Well, technology is supposed to make life better," she says. "No matter what you believe, there's a technology out there for you.