When you catch yourself lying to your therapist, you know it's a waste of money.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

You made a choice—a single choice. How neat to think you may have opened the door to a wondrous future without knowing.

There are times that all you need is someone who will listen to you without judging you

Patch wasn't the kind of guy mothers smiled on. He was the kind of guy they changed the house locks for.

The early 1970s was a time when illegal acts were in style. Everybody was going nuts with causes, most of them against the law.

Man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, he is no longer a man.

You make us look bad', complained Toad. 'You looked bad before I ever met you', Jon told him.

The time I'm not spending with my kid has to be worth it, so when I sat down with my agents after I was ready to go back to work, I told them: It's all about the directors.

Each moment is a place you've never been.

When the mind is clear, behavior is always impeccable.

I love funky styles. Not preppy or rock, just funky!