All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.

He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.