She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

Creatures of a day. What is someone? What is no one? Man is the dream of a shadow.

I haven't forgottenThat I have to grow upAnd someday live withoutYour voice, your opinion--Making my own decisions.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

When I take the oath of office next year [2017] I will restore law and order to America. Believe me, believe me.

The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.

He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.

Modeling is about fantasy, getting people to buy into a lifestyle and a vision.

True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near him must smell whether he choose or not.

I've already started saying that I'm 30 when I'm still 29. That way, I'm already there.