They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.

There's no reason you should write any novel quickly.

Ambition robs you of your childhood. The moment you want to become an adult—in any way—something in your childhood dies.

Sell my old clothes - I'm off to heaven

If you presume to love something, you must love the process of it much more than you love the finished product.

The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human beings could survive a life in hotels.

But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.