I want my stories to move people ... to feel some kind of reward from the writing.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

If you want something done, you'll have to dream it yourself.

My method is based on female psychology, so it works regardless of your looks or money

Daemon had spoken to Blake earlier in the day

An actor's a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

Chick-fil-A is not welcome in New York City as long as the company's president continues to uphold and promote his discriminatory views.

I believe in working harder and putting in the time - being completely obsessed. And, yeah, I think that's life.

Consult your spirit, your soul on everything.

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.

When life is too much, roll with it, baby.