You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.

When you’re in love you don’t have to do a damn thing. You can just be. You can just stay quiet in the world. You don’t have to move an inch.

As my mother once said to me, ‘They’re quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.

Forget art. Put your trust in ice cream.

In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who are standing outside all that.

Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.

If you want to see the consequences of ideas, write a story. If you want to see the consequences of belief, write a story in which somebody is acting on the ideas or beliefs that she has.

Gainfully unemployed, very proud of it, too.

When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the air, using your own imaginative instability.

A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.

There is no weather in malls.

Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment: the monotony undermines our dopamine and attentional systems crucial to our brain plasticity.

Knowledge is promiscuous. It mates and gives birth to more knowledge.

If you're having a bad day, get on with your job, because you having a bad day can affect everyone around you.

I believe that the root cause of every financial crisis, the root cause, is flawed government policies

Vision without passion is a picture without possibilities.

A lot of people say, "What's the worst part about being an actor?" And the worst part is that you're not a musician.

I have 40 pounds to lose. It is not the fault of the fast food people, and anyone who's trying to sue the fast food places needs a therapist, not an attorney.

I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.

Love is the best part of life

there's not a boy on the planet worth this amount of angst. I know; i used to be one