You think that what I've told you is an anecdote. But really it isn't. It's my whole life. It's the only story I have.

When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don’t have to move an inch.

As my mother once said to me, ‘They’re quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.

Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.

In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.

Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.

You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.

If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.

A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.

Throughout the history of our young nation, we have seen our military go bravely into battle, armed with courage and willing to make the ultimate sacrifice.

Casting the body's vest aside, My soul into the boughs does glide.

I come from a world where accountability and accomplishments matter, and where titles and rhetoric take a back seat to results.

Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.

Every time I think about changing a diaper, I run a little bit harder and a little bit faster to make sure I can afford a nanny until my daughter's old enough to take care of that herself.

If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.

But the mere circumstance of complexion cannot deprive them of the character of men.

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

In the beginning I drew and painted from nature in order to know her. Then later, only to fall under her spell. And today, to let her mirror my thoughts and feelings.