I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

Why can’t our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other?

The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.

The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.

The blood in my veins is frozen but it sings of love.

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.

It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks.

After every bath, I make sure to moisturize my entire body. I'm obsessed with Diptyque: people love their candles, but their body products are also amazing.

Even more blood welled up and spilled down his arm, splattering onto the ground. “Camille’s carpet,” Magnus protested. “It’s blood,” said Will. “She ought to be thrilled.

People come to music to seek oblivion: is that not also a form of deception?

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

If you get discouraged about a section of a novel, that can be more catastrophic than getting discouraged about an individual story.

It is music and dancing that make me at peace with the world.

God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.

To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one.

Ben McAdoo has a "work hard" mentality.