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

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.

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

Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.

I don't write for a particular audience.

No circumstance, person, or difficulty can stop the plans and the promises of God.

A hearing heart loves to whom it listens.

This isn't the first time the world has come to an end, and it won't be the last either.

People who stare deserve the looks they get.

There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.

I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.

I'm usually so in control, especially for YouTube videos.

No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.