But it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it.

O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors

oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are

Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible

And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space.

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

Seeing old photographs, we get enamored by the memories we made which will keep tugging at our heart-strings forever and ever...

If your writing fails to move the emotional needle, you are not reaching your readers.

Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.

No one actually needs another person or another person's love to survive. Love is when we have irrationally convinced ourselves that we do.

Yeeres know more then bookes.

O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.

You're trying to create a screenplay and your screenplay is there to give you a structure, rigidity, situational awareness, who the characters are, what do they want, what's the shape of the thing.

I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.

As long as they keep offering me some good parts and so forth - there are some parts out there that fit me pretty well - I'll keep going for a while.