It’s just life. You can’t beat life.

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.

...And maybe one day you will wake up as an infant in a completely different universe, and your entire life thus far was just one big dream.

As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.

When a man comes to me and tries to convince me that he is not a thief, then I take care of my coppers.

If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking 'Do you want fries with that?'

Armaments; extremely useful for fighting wars, a deadweight in any civil economy.

Those Beliebers who haven't met me yet are the special ones.

Do your part to silence gossip - don't repeat it.

We are Italian. We are all little tribes - not only in fashion, but also in music - in everything, basically.

Complexity - limits competition.

An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty.