Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame

I decided to make my living as a magazine writer. And I found that it was really easy and fun.

No one tells the truth to people they don't actually know, and if they do it is a horrible trait. Everyone wants something smaller, something neater than the truth.

I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

reading is a private act, private even from the person who wrote the book. Once the novel is out there, the author is beside the point. The reader and the book have their own relationship now, and should be left alone to work things out for themselves.

Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.