A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.” “That’s only three.” Alvis finished his wine. “You have to do disappointment twice.

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?

What business does memory have with time?

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

Your superpowers don't care who you dislike. If you are an encourager, you encourage them anyway

I close my eyes to indulge and reminisce of a sunset that never existed.

Death is only a translation of life into another language.

But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.

I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.

We could get kinky and see how bats and rats make love, he suggested in a whisper, warm breath against her neck. You are a sick man, Jacques. Very, very sick.

Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their body.

If you are extremely generous, greed will run away.

Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.

Eight hours work, eight hours sleep, and eight hours recreation - Brigham Young