The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.

Being in love means being at the mercy of someone's childhood.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

And silence, like darkness, can be kind; it, too, is a language.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

England has become a squalid, uncomfortable, ugly place ... an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian, rat-hole run by vicious, suburban-minded, materialistic philistines.

Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.

I don't want to be loved. I want to be desired. Love is safety, but desire is foul.

Our lives can only be lived forward and understood backwards. Living a life and understanding it occupy different dimensions.

How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs.

I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

Be a great writer when you write your life's song.

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.

I don't know much about death and the sorriest lesson I've learned is that words, my most trusted guardians against chaos, offer small comfort in the face of anyone's dying.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

Don't let your past determine your destiny.

But we're dying here.

What is style? For many people, a very complicated way of saying very simple things. According to us, a very simple way of saying very complicated things.

What we say does not matter - only what God says to souls through us.

I stop and look at traffic accidents. I won't hang around, but when I hear something is terrible, as bad as it is, I've gotta look at it.

You never want to be in a place where an employee has vested 3 out of the 4 years of stock and they start thinking about leaving.