My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

The death of an illusion tends to disconcert.

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

That's life: trust and you're betrayed; don't trust and you betray yourself.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

If a building is falling on you, you don't concern yourself with the horn of an approaching car. You deal with the most immediate peril first. That's survival.

To paraphrase Oedipus, Hamlet, Lear, and all those guys, "I wish I had known this some time ago.

Nothing we did in those days has caused a change." "Because of what we did, things remained as they were, rather than getting worse," I told him.

I hear a sacred voice.

The ego camouflages itself like a fox born and raised in a hen house. Its only worry is that you fail to notice its presence every so often and start acting without fear

Strategy and timing are the Himalayas of marketing. Everything else is the Catskills.

Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.

The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust.

Small children and unruly people who are demanding attention.

Michael and I talk at least every two weeks. He understands why I've done the things I have.

If we're in a bubble, it's the weirdest bubble I've ever seen, where everybody hates everything.

When you understand that life is a test, you realize that nothing is insignificant in your life.

If death is the end of everything, then living is everything.