They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

See mirror, every time you will miss me and look deeper into your eyes till you will find me.

Your mind is your belief hotspot -the center where the issues of life emanate from.

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

Lexie was the leader of the bobble heads. They were a group of girls best described as perfect, plastic, fake and hollow headed, hence the name bobble heads.

Flies? Flies? Poor puny things. Who wants to eat flies?

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

When you're in there fighting, there's an energy and there's a focus that is nearly unbreakable.

When I hear music which is really exciting, I get really excited, and when I hear music which is really boring, I get really upset. I get angry.

I love working with women directors. They don't mind making you cute.

Our biggest moral debt is to the environment. Take-take-take, nothing given back.