The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led.

Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

This Christmas, every Christmas, Santa Claus is everywhere and Jesus is nowhere to be found.

We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.

Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.

And you’re disappointed in the story. I know you wanted a love story.

There’s nothing cruel about a vampire or a parasite, she said.

That’s why it’s difficult to write about your own life. Any distortion feels like a betrayal.

Is it any wonder that fear and anxiety have become the hallmarks of our age?

I've been pretty career-focused since moving to New York.

Like most people, you listen to yourself on the phone or an answering machine and you're like, 'Ugh.' So to do something with just your voice is hard.

Suck it up. This is the life you chose for yourself, so buck up and deal.

Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others.

Successful innovations become conventions.

All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.

Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.

There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.