Plots are for dead people.

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.

Fitness is never really about what you lose

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.-Bono

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

I don't think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha.

We live in the kind of society where, in almost all cases, hard work is rewarded.

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.

Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance.

Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.