Life is way too short, so try to enjoy every minute of it with a sense of humor!

If you're going to be a narcissistic schmuck, kid, don't bother studying Faulkner. Go straight to Brett Easton Ellis. He's the role model you need.

But I came to see that Las Vegas is not a freak but is, instead, deeply integrated with the rest of the country, and the world beyond. It is symptom, mirror, metaphor.

I've always thought that if I bury my feelings now, I can dig them up later when I have time to deal with them.

All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've kept you framed up on the wall in a little box of nostalgic moonlight.

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful. Marguerite, Countess of Blessington I praise loudly; I blame softly.

Ask yourself how many shots you would have saved if you always developed a strategy before you hit, always played within your capabilities, never lost you temper, and never got down on yourself.

But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.

The positive thing about writing is that you connect with yourself in the deepest way. You get a chance to know who you are, to know what you think. You begin to have a relationship with your mind.

If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.