I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.

Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened.

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.

Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.

Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.

I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever going to write. I wrote and rewrote every line as if my life depended on it, and then rewrote it again.