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Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has.
Words, too, have genuine substance -- mass and weight and specific gravity.
Inside I feel much like a 12-year-old or a 17-year-old who knows big words.
The instinct to notice changes gives women a tremendous advantage over men.
He said that in a way being loved is like being told you never have to die.
Giving your book to Hollywood is like turning your daughter over to a pimp.
Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.
I write strictly for fun... as long as it stays fun I'll continue to do it.
Once you stop believing in Santa Claus, the whole world just goes downhill.
Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of
I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
I tell my writing students that everything is material; just pay attention.
Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.
Chaos and destruction do tend to take away a person's dating possibilities.
I never thought I would need bravery in the small moments of my life. I do.
Men who have had a great deal of experience learn not to lose their temper.
The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
To not be able to love the one you love is to have your life wrenched away.
Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane.
I have the European urge to use my feet when a drive can be dispensed with.
Baseball games are like snowflakes and fingerprints, no two are ever alike.
[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.
We live beyond words, as also we live beyond computation and beyond theory.
Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.
I have to start my real life soon, before I die of boredom and frustration.
Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.
The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won't tell.
You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.
Never argue with your wife about hostility when she's a certified Freudian.
One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for.
I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.
Autobiographies tell more lies than all but the most self-indulgent fiction.
I laughed out loud and shook my head, "You're crazy!" He nodded, "About you.
I loved her. I loved her with a something so fierce I couldn't even name it.
I went to Rosemary Beach, Florida, for the first time in the spring of 2012.
The winters in Denver are brutal; it snows from the end of October to April.
When people are filled to the brim with love, they are their most beautiful.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.
Love is not everything ... It is only when we are young that we think it is.
A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.
Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.
The essence of life will never be captured by even the greatest of formulas.