The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks.

A person’s life story is equal to what they have plus what they want most in the world, minus what they’re actually willing to sacrifice for it.

Everything in the universe is everything else. A man is a killer is a saint is a monkey is a cockroach is a goldfish is a whale, and the Devil is just the angel who asked for More.

It's taken me years of practice to learn how to act natural.

I do know that I fell in love with the moment of falling in love and I wanted to keep that moment alive forever, at the expense of all those moments to follow.

Only everyone forgets how seldom our memory is accurate. Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past"p.193

Desiree. It's like falling in love every night and having your heart broken every morning... Having more memory is just a way of distorting a greater amount of the past.

I bought a piece of God, ground to dust and mixed with alcohol in a glass bottle the colour of molasses.

The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful

Sometimes she worried that she was too happy. . . And her joy would become a restless thing, flapping its wings inside her, as though looking for an opening to fly away.

How come I have too many things to do all the time...??

God will never reject you. Whether you accept Him is your decision.

I ain't got a job cause I ain't got a car, so I'm looking for a girl with a job and a car.

I'm going to be 80, walking with a stick down the runway.

Fiction does not spring into the world fully grown, like Athena. It is the process of writing and rewriting that makes a fiction original, if not profound.

Let the ancient serve the present, let the foreign serve the national; by developing that which has been accomplished one creates something that is new.

If Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania wins, for instance, it will tell Republicans that their own brand hasn't been hurt too badly by [Donald] Trump's negatives.