He was so far away now, or maybe he just looked distant because we were imaging different things for our future.

Maybe that was the secret to happiness, I thought, being free of the responsibility of yourself.

Tell me, is there someone in your life who's been sharing your life too closely? A friend or a loved one? Is there someone who's been taking up your time and not giving any of it back?

I did have a friend, ' I said.'And your friend trespassed upon you, ' the Wally replied.

There was no better way to live, or worse. It was all terrible, and you had to do it constantly,

I had seen the few things I cared about forget me seamlessly. I had seen the life I never really fit into heal up around my absence like a wound scabbed over.

There's a kind of pressure that your own life muscles onto you, to do something just like you would do, to behave just like yourself.

There was a hazy damp film in his eyes that I recognized from emotions in old movies, projected large on darkened screens.

Death is the final destination of every man.

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

Everybody’s gotta have somebody to step on. Makes ’em feel important.

Childlessness doesn't make people selfish; selfishness makes people selfish.

When my husband first read a draft, he said, "You spend too much time describing the characters' outfits." He was right. I removed much of the clothes talk, but quite a bit remained.

The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way.

I went to Spago once, eight years ago. I had just closed a deal. I thought it would be fun to go to Spago and it wasn't. I got a bad table and nobody paid any attention to me.

It's okay to have personal ambitions, but you have to take someone with you.

I'll take my clothes off - whatever the job requires.