Obviously, there is pleasure in the execution of any sort of art, and using language, as Nabokov felt also, is an exquisite process.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

God’s timing determines the fruit of the harvest.

And we’re at four. Alexis Ann, I think we’re in an abusive relationship.

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.

I'm just a regular guy. I want people to realize that I embody the true American dream. I work hard. I went to school.

To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes.

The most complicated character I have ever played - she has many, many, many layers that even I'm not fully aware of.

It happens so quickly it seems like it's coming from somewhere else. It's not. It just means that you're in sync with yourself.

In general, we are sort of conditioned to see a different body type as acceptable and maybe look away when the other body type arrives.

Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.

It seems like the first law of Nature is that everybody likes to receive things, but nobody likes to feel grateful.