Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven

We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination.

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

All the unimaginative assholes in the world who imagine that Shakespeare couldn't have written Shakespeare because it was impossible from what we know about Shakespeare of Stratford that such a man would have had the experience to imagine such things - well, this denies the very thing that separates Shakespeare from almost every other writer in the world: an imagination that is untouchable and nonstop.

But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of the imagination.