Robert Walker as Bruno was excellent. He had elegance and humor, and the proper fondness for his mother

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Everything human is alien to me.

Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.

Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.

One situation – maybe one alone – could drive me to murder: family life, togetherness.

And no book, and possibly no painting, when it is finished, is ever exactly like the first dream of it.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

How easy it was to lie when one had to lie!

For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.

It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn’t.

Bad wolf. Stop baiting the human.

You needn’t worry. I don’t think you have aged enough for me to partake of you. Blood, women, wine, and cheese all get better with the passage of time. You are not quite ripe. --Lane DeLuca

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Although technology has enhanced our lives in many ways, it has also ensured the erosion of imagination.

I mind my own business. And I don't eat junk food.

VaynerMedia filters the world how humans interact. This is how people are going to make buying decisions.

What does your heart tell you?

The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.

Let's just say that I've had my heart broken more than once, and never learned a thing.