We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works

You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book?

I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently I could.

Diving is a leap of faith plus gravity.

We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

Let's stay young forever. Young, stupid, and pretty. Sounds like a plan, don't you think?

Death is a state of mind---many people on Earth spend their entire lives dead.

They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.

In the end, the end of a life only matters to friends, family, and other folks you used to know. For everyone else, it's just another end.

When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.

Beauty is the smile of a loving heart.

Create an incapacity and you will incapacitate your creativity

Life's pressure is equal to your resistance.

We must send a message that visa expiration dates will be strongly enforced.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.

A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

Memories I had locked away have begun to break free, like shards of ice fracturing off an arctic shelf. In sleep, these broken floes drift toward the morning light of remembrance.

The biological agents we believe Iraq can produce include anthrax, botulinum, toxin, aflatoxin and ricin. All eventually result in excruciatingly painful death.