There is no weather in malls.

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.

Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool.]

No use fanning up hot coals when you have to walk across them.

What we pay attention to expands. What we pay attention to we become.

Any opportunity to be helpful is an opportunity to earn money.

It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.

That what appears to be egoism so often isn't.

College was the greatest four years of my life.

I'm not a magician. I'am an alchemyst, a man of science, though perhaps not the science you would be familiar with.

Greatness, as we daily see it, is unsociable.

My brother has ADD, which is weird because he drives a Ford Focus. I told my brother that joke but he didn't laugh because he got distracted by my shoe strings.