Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it.

To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom.

A lot of people see it as a kind of failure to stay in the place where you’re from, especially if you’re from the Midwest. Like ambition is geographic.

A happy ending isn't really the end. It's just the place where you choose to stop telling the story.

....and I'll know that this is what you live for - to hear someone say. "Let's go home, " to hear someone you love call your name.

attraction, that's the farthest thing from an idea. That's an urge, an impulse, a force. It's subconscious, physical. You can't make everything cerebral.

Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management.

Chaos is not the lack of order, it is merely the absence of order, that the observer is used to.

I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

One of the biggest dishes in Sicily is couscous, and there's always been a North African influence on Italian culture, culinary culture there.

One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.

It is a lot better to come from an evolved monkey than from a fallen angel.

Let the dog bark; the moon shall beam on.

Come on,'he says.' I have something else to show you.