Savor the imminent weirdness of the day.

When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don’t have to move an inch.

As my mother once said to me, ‘They’re quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.

Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.

In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.

Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.

You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.

If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.

A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.

Stories about lives remembered bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.

I find it very sad that by the time corporate science realizes the value of nature, that it may be too late

All people want to live dignified live

The plain fact is that if you don't have a problem, you create one. If you don't have a problem you don't feel that you are living.

Introverts are more effective leaders of proactive employees. When you have a creative, energetic work force, an introvert is going to draw out that energy better.

I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.

Nothing that can be, can come between me and the full prospect of my hopes.

I think the key difference between the web and print medium is, on the web or any digital medium, you're dealing with this added element of behavior.

Doing something that warrants the attention of the President of the United States is super-cool.

You once told me that I make you believe in the impossible. You make me believe in love, which I’d given up on. Thank you for proving to me it’s not just a fairy tale.