What was it like to be so confident even in your failings that you weren't the least bit bothered when other people pointed them out? I was almost envious.

I don't think anybody ever really knows what's going to happen, " he said. "We're all just out here hoping for the best.

Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all.

For you, I wish for second chances

You stop believing in wishes when the only one you want to make can never come true.

If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?

When he takes me in his arms, and speaks to me softly, I see the world through rose-colored glasses.

Luck is tenacity of purpose.

Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it's as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny

Today there are a lot of novelists who seem to be writing to be reviewed, not read.

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

Skating has always been a major area of interest to me.

Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation. Everyone wants to be the first to know. It's the rhythm of life today.

Misery makes sport to mock itself.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.