Often I'd take out my magnifying glass and stare into the chaos that was her face.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

I am, and always will be, the optimist. The hoper of far-flung hopes, and the dreamer of improbable dreams.

People are afraid of what exist in the dark and thats only truth

Be a man! Put on a mask.

You must constantly strive to enlarge your awareness. Naturally, if you do, you will have an uncommonly fine and happy life.

I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.

I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.

I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.

The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts - especially the women in my life - moving out of the shadows a bit more and becoming more present in my life.

Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.

Anything can happen in stock markets and you ought to conduct your affairs so that if the most extraordinary events happen, that you're still around to play the next day.