There's no shortage of material in life.

I drink coffee. Without coffee, I probably couldnt write.

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.

I need to stay in the present and use that new-age mantra: 'I'm okay right now.' But I worry about all the things I'm failing at every moment.

I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.

Something has happened where you almost never grow up in America. Maybe it's the greater wealth.

I don't really recognise success. I don't see myself as on an upwardly mobile trajectory. I see myself as on the edge of a cliff about to fall off.

Oh, God, I don't know what's more difficult, life or the English language.

I am always the source of the worst rumors about myself.

Books—all books—are complicated things, muttering at us in different contradictory voices, refusing to stay the same when we go back to them. Tying them down too much robs of them of the magic.

She feels a little sad. Is she sad? Helen considers an alternative: She is dehydrated.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help the desire to serve.

There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.

As soon as rules were made, names were given. There are already many names. One must know when it is enough.

It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives.

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.

Talent, don't bother about wether or not you have it. Just assume that you do, and forget about it. Talent is a word we use after someone has become accomplished.

You show me someone who's led a perfect life and I'll show you a dullard.

He who asserts he is free, shall be free. He who says he is bound, bound he shall remain.