Growing old is not all sweetness and light. Old women especially are invisible.

I think to be driven to want to kill must be such a terrible burden.

We always know when we are awake that we cannot be dreaming even though when actually dreaming we feel all this may be real.

It is not so much true that the world loves a lover as that the lover loves all the world.

The trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.

I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.

Some say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

The knives of jealousy are honed on details.

Many emotions go under the name of love, and almost any one of them will for a while divert the mind from the real, true, and perfect thing.

…She kissed me on my thin lips and all my words were pushed back into my mouth. “I don’t want to die, ” she whispered, “but I need to lose the shackles of this multitude of hearts.

Because it's all about the journey...

This morning when I put on my underwear I could hear the fruit-of-the-loom guys laughing at me.

I love HBO productions, actually, like 'The Wire.'

Same thing every year, getting up at the crack of dawn, drinking, fighting, throwing up, pissing on walls and then you leave the house and things get bad.

He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.

Theres no such thing as a free lunch, at least on the karmic level.

It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth.

His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.

The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.