Basically, all anyone has to do is ask me for fun details or tell me to be creative, and my mind turns to mud. I am instantly the most boring person you've ever met.

I guess love is the real suspension of disbelief.

It's perfectly natural to doubt your judgment about doubting your judgment.

It scares me. But then I get this big feeling, simple but exalted: He's like me, just with different details.

Everywhere you go, you see women more beautiful than yourself. You imagine him being attracted to them. You're drinking gasoline to stay warm.

You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.

I feel in some ways I've had a difficult life. And it makes me the kind of writer I am, in what I value, what I respect, what I hold dear.

The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.

She seems sort of lost.' I thought, Lost how? How am I lost? Suddenly I felt lost.

I hate weddings,' she says. 'They make me feel so unmarried. Actually, even brushing my teeth makes me feel unmarried.

We are all children until our fathers die.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal

A good book is an event in my life.

It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other.

People are gonna leave anyway, because those who stay are not people, they are family.

In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.

Forget what life used to be, you are what you choose to be. It's whatever it is you see that life will become.

Sometimes I feel my arm is like a swan's neck - so weak.

The midlife crisis you're having at 30 is indulgent, but the midlife crisis you have at 45 is to an extent thrust upon you.

I'm tied of hearing about temperance instead of abstinence, in order to please the cocktail crowd in church congregations.

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.