I'd given up everything to be a writer, and if I didn't then go on to do that - to write - then I didn't know what would happen to me.

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

Love must wait; it must break one’s bones.

Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When they finally know you they're ready to leave

Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it's the same with people.

I'm a frotteur, someone who likes to rub words in his hand, to turn them around and feel them, to wonder if that really is the best word possible.

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.

Dresscodes are for styleless people.

Hope but not enthusiasm is the proper state for the writer.

What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.

I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

Our bodies heal without permission but our hearts need consent. Give it.

Let go of rousing speechand identification with thoughtsUntil your endyou will never be jaded

The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe.

one doesn't interrupt a beautiful girl unless one is going to be funny.

Sometimes you know before you know.

I've been on the road since 1967.

So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.

Every zombie story is fundamentally about a breakdown of order, with the infrastructure intact. That infrastructure might be on fire, yes.

Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.

Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich