At the exact moment any decision seems to be being made, it's usually long after the real decision was actually made--like light we see emitted from stars.

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding.

Nature is not human-hearted.

God, let me remember all good losers.

If someone throws a pie at your face, just open your mouth really wide and say, 'Thanks for feeding me, a**hole.'

It’s always summer somewhere.

I've been fortunate - I haven't had too many auditions. I slept with the right people.

It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.

The greatest discovery of the 20th Century is that our attitude of mind determines our quality of life, not circumstances.