The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

A dog who thinks he is a man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer.

Take away a man's actual sense of manhood - which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to be self-sufficient, to provide for children - and you've got to give them something else. And they did.

Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.

Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.