You're a library of me.

It was a kiss from the past.

The nineties, ecstatic decade!

Time is how you spend your love.

Full stories are as rare as honesty.

All tastes are expressions of belief.

Each couple is its own vaudeville act.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

He traced the genealogy of the feeling.

Rarely does one see a squirrel tremble.

Any woman who counts on her face is a fool.

I am very selfish, really. I lived for love.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Don't live in a way that makes you feel dead.

It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy

You can feel bad... I mean, that's not illegal.

I'm not sure if you're the person for me any more.

He had her in his heart, but not always in his mind.

She loved you in the morning because the day was new.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

The end is simply the beginning of an even longer story.

Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.

Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ­internet.

You say you want to talk, But you don't . You stonewall me.

Learning how to be a good reader is what makes you a writer.

The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.

Sometimes you get a flash of what you look like to other people.

Desire is never final, desire is imprecise and impractical [...]

An essential part of power is the freedom not to think too deeply

It's not in good taste to have talking ghosts in a grown-up novel.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it.

I'm always a bit suspicious of writers who have the gift of the gab.

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are.

The object of the passion is just an accessory to the passion itself.

The future's another country, man... And I still ain't got a passport.

You don't have favourites among your children, but you do have allies.

I don't actually believe in the extension of consciousness after death.

The novel leads you places that you never could have gotten to otherwise.

You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.

Anyone over the age of thirty catching a bus can consider himself a failure.

The lady was old, the lady was ill. It didn't matter what the lady believed.

Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility.

I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them.

I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.

The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.

The lack of alternatives to an illegal action does not legitimise that action.

When I think of the books I love, there's always a little laughter in the dark.

World makers, social network makers, ask one question first: 'How can I do it?'

For me, George Saunders novel [Lincoln in the Bardo] is about a problem of pain.

The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.

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