Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life.

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings.

Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

All I think of ever is that I love you.

We savour on great memories of happy times.

Whatever success I've had, I always like to top it.

And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen.

DNA has nothing to do with success. Turn your genes into overalls and get to work.

In the latter case life rests upon a thousand presuppositions which the individual can never trace back to their origins, and verify; but which he must accept upon faith and belief.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

I love it when I have a nightmare to me that means I got my money's worth out of that eight hours

I'm quite a smiley guy, I have my moments, but I think I'm generally of a relatively optimistic nature.

The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into fiction and to put out into books.