The girl traced the outline of her lover's shadow so she would always have a record of how he looked.

If you worry about disaster all the time, that's what you're going to get.

I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65. But by the time I was 33, to tell you the truth, I was a little bored with drugs and sex, and I thought I'd do the writing thing.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.

There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there. It’s up to you to find them.

People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.