She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.

I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.