We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh ?

I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.

Make me immortal with a kiss.

All mothers are mothers of great people, and it is not their fault that life later disappoints them.

You and I, it's as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught.

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.

What's the point of being a grown-up if you don't get to be immature?

He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.

Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.

He suggested devils, skulls, harsh masculine drawings. This thing was…heart poundingly good. She wanted to pluck it, and bury her face in it, and keep it in a vase by her bedside.

The desire to write grows with writing.

Have you noticed, " said John, "how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents, ' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?

Gardening is in large measure a phenomenon of attention.

There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.

I think there are people living in Walmart dressed up as employees.

Who cares how we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons if we avoided a war and got a dictator to give up his chemical weapons.

The reason I always insisted on signing my work was not to be subordinate to anyone.

Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.

I'd moved to L.A. with my mother when I was 17 or 18. She loved show business and I was young enough that I had no idea what I wanted to do.