You can learn from a glance at anyone's library, not what they are, but what they wish to be.

Dreamless nights, I knew, can be the most troubling, since you come back not knowing where you've been or what you've done.

I do not encourage early morning chirpiness, even in those whom I know and love. It is generally a sign of a sloppy mind, and is not to be encouraged.

Growing up is like that, I suppose. The strings fall away and you're left standing on your own.

As anybody with two older sisters can tell you, a closed door is like a red rag to a bull. It cannot go unchallenged.

It's amazing what the discovery of a corpse can do for one's spirits.

Love is love, wherever you may find it—even when it's covered in feathers.

I could tell he was becoming sulky, as boys and men do when they're caught bluffing. And I ignored him, as girls and women do when they catch them out.

True charity, I had had discovered, consists of swallowing an invisible flaming sword.

She needed to come with an instructional manual. And one not written in Spanish.

But things change, people change, Gaby. Otherwise what would be the point of living?

And you were always nothing but slime, Henry Wallace. Fancy trash

I thought you only had eyes for your ship.” God, she was beautiful. “Until I met you.

I had as many doubts as anyone else. Standing on the starting line, we're all cowards.

The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.

I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.

I believe that Thomas Jefferson said: 'If it neither breaks my leg nor picks my pocket, what difference is it to me?'

Nobody gives twenty-five million dollars to anybody if they're not getting twenty-five million worth out of it. Forget it. It just doesn't happen.

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.