These worst mornings with cold floors and hot windows and merciless light - the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.

Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky.

I love the way you love, but I hate the way I'm supposed to love you back.

Dieting makes me want to murder everyone around me.

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

America, as everybody knows, is a country of many contradictions, and a big contradiction for a long time has been between a very aggressive form of capitalism and consumerism against what might be called a kind of moral or civic impulse.

I'm very bright, but I'm terrified of sounding like someone who thinks he's very bright-because those people are assholes.