Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.

Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

The message is clear: By all means become an abomination -- but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

Push yourself, because no one else is going to do it for you.

Spirituality is about what we do about the fire inside of us, about how we channel our eros.

Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.

Wrath brings mortal men their gravest hurt.

I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.

Sailing to an island unknown Failing to find your way home you walk under a sea leagues beneath us

Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.

I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on top of the beer can

My perception of life is not to ask Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my children, to support me financially.

Mental toughness is essential to success.