There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really good food...If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, better give up.

When you are used to the kind of life -of never getting anything you want- you stop knowing what it is you want.

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

A theory is a battlefield in your head.

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too needed ten, then thirty, then a full minute - like shadows lengthening at dusk. Someday, I suppose, the shadows will be swallowed up in darkness.

I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.