Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments. Only later do they make themselves known, from their scars. - Chris Marker

Happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won-some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find it-but something to carry doggedly through everything.

The person she liked best didn't like her enough to want more of her, and she didn't want to pretend that wasn't awful.

The Bronx? No Thonx!

Karma is only in space time and causality. Your real self resides non-locally.

For a much lauded writer, I'm not terribly self-absorbed. In social situations, which are difficult for me - I mean, this is an interview - I'm normally uncomfortable talking about myself.

Talent allows people to stand out, but their wrong choices make them sit down.

Wonderland was all we had in common, after all; Wonderland was what was denied the two of us. I had denied him his; he had denied me mine.

Cancer did not bring me to my knees, it brought me to my feet.

Think what we would have missed if we had never ... used a mobile phone or surfed the Net -- or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.

Those people out there like good music. They don't stop and ask themselves, 'Is it country or rock and roll?' If they like it, they will tell you.