Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes.

Literature is humanity's broad-minded alter-ego, with room in its heart for monsters, even for you. It's humanity without the judgement.

Life's generally artless ... but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind your back, and before you know it you're in the final act of a lousy movie.

Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void.

That's what happens when you keep a secret from someone you love: you start to hate them for allowing you to prove your own willingness to deceive them.

Words betrayed her: beautiful butterflies in her mind; dead moths when she opened her mouth for their release into the world.

When you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

Coffee justifies the existence of the word 'aroma'.

There is no God and that's His only commandment.

With adolescent egotism and a lot of money one can pretty much rule the world.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

Each step I take toward him is one more step closer to home.

Let the radiance of light be your guide.

I will help build your museumWhen you run out of space to hang your workYou can hang your work in mine

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life.

Simplicity is the essence of genius.

True friends ... face in the same direction toward common projects interests goals.

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

Comfort becomes a goal when distinctions of rank are abolished and privileges destroyed.

There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.

There is going to be a lot asked of me over the next few weeks but I am getting more experience now and learning all the time.