Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

There are no monsters in the dark.

Planning is good for a decent survival, but an attitude to identify opportunity and act impromptu defines disproportionate success or spells immense happiness.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

If you've got a stick hitting a drum and you're programming it on a computer, it's so much more interesting than a sample playing back - it's something in the air, that's the magical ingredient.

I never get used to the response that people have toward me.

I am going to support our great men and women of law enforcement.

I always have the best of everything.

That's my goal-more public courses in Mexico. I want to make sure little kids in Mexico can play golf.

That happy sense of purpose people have when standing up for a principle they haven't really been knocked down for yet.

You are too free and untamable to be labeled.