No one can ever know you like those with whom you've shared the pangs of your youth.

We cling to the most painful reminders of our youth, our memories or our injuries, perhaps so we can look back to our former selves, console them, and say: Keep going. I know how the story ends.

Maybe that's just what nostalgia is: a willingness to embrace the pain of the past.

People never grow up, they just learn how to act in public.

Move too quickly and time will pass you by.

the nighttime of the body is the daytime of the soul.

I ran into Woody Allen shooting a movie on my block. I can't believe this is my life!

British people are surprised that I'm British!

My father is a straight- talking guy. He's always been. He has a history of that in business as a personality for the last 35 years.

nothing is so horrifying as the possibility of existing simply because we do not know how to die.

In that Holy Place where you tell Him everything and he understands; there are angels who stand in wait to hear his every command. How may they serve you and increase your joy?

Life is a series of ups and clowns. Make it worth your wild!

The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.