Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

come back, come back to me

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

I feel that I've always done things the hard way, and I've always felt a lot of pride in earning everything that I have.

I think one of the best things you can do is write really sad songs that touch some semblance of... I guess 'hope' is the right word?

He's true to God who's true to man.

The year I turned 26, as the head of my own brokerage firm, I made $49 million, which really pissed me off because it was three shy of a million a week.

You can not stop you from being who you are.

People of each generation in the twentieth century "were three times more likely to experience depression" than people of the preceding generation.

Every single soul is a poem, written on the back of God's hand

The ape, vilest of beasts, how like to us.

I don't think there is any serious evidence that we need to be paying people more than 100 times the average wage in order to get high-performing managers.