Strangers should meet in unfamiliar areas. It's comforting.

The mind plays tricks. It rejects things until it thinks ― or something tells it ― that the remembering can be handled.

And then the earth, the world, the planet, the galaxy, and the entire solar system went crazy.

Truth is neither joyful nor sad, neither good nor bad. It is simply truth.

There is nothing in a crowded street more noticeable than a man running ― unless it is a woman.

When the old men kill themselves, the cities are dying.

A corruption of intentions.

I fought...I fought and I fought...until I...couldn't remember any more.

A million possible endearments ran through his head. But he said, “Help.

I mean if we all looked at how much Bill Gates has in his bank and allowed that to act as a distraction then it could be very off-putting for some.

When the author admits to Christians that he was not a Christian himself, he says their dialogue became "distant and rehearsed, like a pitch for Ginsu knives.

The clothes of Courreges are so nice.

Love is friendship with erotic moments.

Sometimes we feel like life is like theater, really.

I was born in Mount Kisco, New York-although my family was living in the Bronx at the time. That's just where I decided to be born.

Sure, I like my short hair. It also quadrupled my rate. I did get sick of seeing it on everybody, though - every stewardess, every salesclerk, and in every restaurant.

The best I can say is that it's better for me to write about despair and darkness than to be incapable of getting off the sofa. It's better to write about suicide than to contemplate it too heavily.

One of the main reasons for the conflict in Syria, and the terrorism that it's spawned, is climate change and drought.