The affectionate farce I make of him ignores the ways I feel his lack of love for me. But we are managing.

Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world.

This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

Usually she ordered a cup of coffee and a cup of tea, as well as a brownie, propping up her sadness with chocolate and caffeine so that it became an anxiety.

A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.

One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them.

They had, finally, the only thing anyone really wants in life: someone to hold your hand when you die.

The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother or father. And you know what they say? I could never do that!'

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.

Never loose hope. Stay strong, you never know what tomorrow brings.

If teams had to name themselves honestly, they’d all be the Pimple-Faced Teenagers.

In the words of a pastor friend, "Christianity is less about holding on to God and more about God holding on to you.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Daniel Radcliffe told me once that you should always keep the people around you that you know are going to tell you the truth.

Both my marriages were failures! Number one departed, and number two stayed

Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.

There are so many decisions in making a movie.