I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.

All actors are whores. They want only one thing: to seduce you.

Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming.

Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as you connect with your true subject you will write.

Betrayal is the deepest wound. Betrayal is what remains of love, when love has gone.

One of life's minor satisfactions is forgetting.

Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them.