A story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

The mind is more sensible than heart, if you are sure listen to your heart, if you are confuse listen to your mind.

step by step

Honestly I don't know why i have these parties""Because of your cat""That's true. Chairman Meow deserves my every effort

I could never hate anyone I knew.

I love animals, and not only do I get to help animals in need, I learn a lot too!

We are the richest country in the world. We spend more on health care than any other country. Yet we have the worst health care in the Western world. Come on. We can do better than this.

I wanted to create an extremely sexy fragrance that would turn a man's head.

You can achieve anything if you believe in yourself. But the opposite is also true; without strong self-belief you will not go far.

I can do things at 45, not because I can do a bunch of pull-ups, it's because I do Yoga!

Friendship is full of dregs.