Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about.

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.

Some people talk about other people’s failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.

From the mind which thinks to die, let my soul sleep tonight.

But would I have chosen to be Paul? I'd miss Will too much, the feel of his shins.

Love is one of the strongest feelings one can ever have.

Can you imagine what you could do, if you did all that you can?

Don't kill the golden goose.

There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others.

I have to go 150 percent or nothing at all.

Passion and desire bind your Heart. Remove the locks. Become a key, become a key . . .

Therefore a victorious army first wins and then seeks battle; a defeated army first battles and then seeks victory.