There was a time when self-promotion was considered so verboten, especially for authors.

If a police officer arrests a mime, does he need to tell him he has the right to remain silent.

I come from a newspaper background, so maybe Im attuned to current events.

Sometimes what we want to do and what we must do are not the same. Pasquo, the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.

And even if they don't find what they're looking for, isn't it enough to be out walking together in the sunlight?

What business does memory have with time?

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision.

I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me. Because the stories had all been written.

A cheap writer has an expensive thoughts.

Strive to become the best version of your original self. That's where your true fulfillment in life lies.

Is this a kissing book?

Only when we are so old, only, are we aware of the beauty of life.

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

Gather the flowers, but spare the buds.

Leaders must know where they are going if they expect others to willingly join them on the journey.

I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.

As long as I don't break the camera, I'll be fine.

She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.