Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations.

And the rest is rust and stardust.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.

Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

When we can't dream any longer we die.

Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.

All those animals live a pretty dreary life, then they get chopped up and put on a griddle.

Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her - her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life, and if you screw that up, you can start again tomorrow.

Discipline must come through liberty.

Securing the border is priority number one.

I watched my parents go from having very basic jobs to educating themselves, to buying a house. They set a really good bar for what they wanted their kids to achieve.

She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating.