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The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.
Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword.
Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.
Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness.
Die without me if you will. Live for me if you dare.
And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.
And every last one of us can do better than give up.
What if I was never redeemed? What if I already was?
When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.
What kind of power was it if it would never be used?
Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it.
Besides, hysteria is only possible with an audience.
A shadow of a reflection of an image of an illusion.
If I turn up suicided in the morning, it was murder.
I like situations that push a character to the edge.
Scared money can’t win and a worried man can’t love.
If you break little promises, you'll break big ones.
No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.
One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.
Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending.
I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.
The secret to winning a woman is calculated neglect.
Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.
I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.
I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.
One fine day a predatory world shall consume itself.
The earth's a door if you press your ear against it.
No decision should be made on an empty shopping bag.
My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.
Los Angelenos dress like they've been focus-grouped.
I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant.
Love is always being given where it is not required.
You confuse what's important with what's impressive.
They had nothing in common but the English language.
No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.
For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.
Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy
A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.
And remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
I do get flak for the lack of romance in my stories.
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
Wine adds a smile to friendship and a spark to love.
The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
Whenever man commits a crime heaven finds a witness.
Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.
Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
A head full of stars, just not in constellation yet.
Everything that I write will be signed with my name.