When your life has had few events to occupy it, it's amazing how a simple encounter can seem like an entire three-act play.

The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.

Whatever you choose for your stationery is your favorite color because it's where you pour your heart out.

I created an icicle sculpture in the snow. White on white.

Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.

What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.

I don't want five hundred billion neural chips. I want guts.

I thought grandmothers had to like you. It’s a law or something.

I just think perfection and lasting through the ages is for Greek statues, not us mere humans.

There is something about her eyes. Eyes don't breathe. I know that much. But hers look breathless.

The harder you search the more troubled you become.

I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.

Decision power is knowledge-based, wisdom-driven and character-oriented.

Not a lawyer but carries within him the debris of a poet.

Spend some amount of time alone everyday.

Plus, publishing's inherent conservatism, means that what little did get through was weighted towards the commercial end of the scale, which is not the kind of writing that excites me.

All things I thought I knew; but now confess The more I know, I know, I know the less.

This is a commodities business, so the companies that do it best are the ones that do it more efficiently.

Other people's marriages are a perpetual source of amazement.

Since art is dead in the actual life of civilized nations, it has been relegated to these grotesque morgues, museums.