Needing kindness myself, I am kinder now, and we get on amazingly well. [p. 110]

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of the good-hearted: she assumed that everyone else was just like her.

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

Time itself made all things rare.

Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.

Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.

...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you safe.

I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

My mind is huge with little stories that I never told you.

Your life will be simplified when you choose inaction when no action is required and choose action when action is required!

No one consciously chooses addiction to a substance or behavior over his partner. There are always reasons – powerful ones – why a person retreats into addiction.

I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless.

I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.

You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?

Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!

A short story is something that I think can be intuited and envisioned and held in your mind almost at once.

I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!

I've been proud to work on some really great children's shows, but they are not my only interest.

The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half.