We enjoy this illusion of continuity and we call it memory. Which explains, perhaps, why our worst fear isn't the end of life, but the end of memories

Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

You know, there's that silly saying 'We're born alone and we die alone' -it's nonsense. We're surrounded at birth and surrounded at death. It is in between that we're alone.

People, it turns out, aren't a product of their own time. They're a product of the time before theirs

Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor the flaky meditation books. After all, I can pretend I never read those.

The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer.

Anything that's worth anything is complicated.

Art doesn't spring from the muses alone, but from hard work.

But my point, you see is that death is misunderstood. The loss of one's life is not the greatest loss. It is no loss at all. To others, perhaps, but not to oneself.

Did she answer my email yet?' That's the new obesity.

Humility Preceeds Glory

He wasn't my type -- my type was more the skinny hipster boys in girl jeans and thick glasses, a.k.a. the first ones to go during the outbreak -- but the sight still had me staring.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor the best opportunities they will never come.

I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy.

Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

God is a Republican, and Santa Claus is a Democrat.

Sometimes what is most important to us is not obvious and can be seen only by how we respond to our husbands in everyday life.

Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.

By pursuing any one of our dreams, we can find fulfillment. We don't need to pursue them all.