Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.

I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.

the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.

... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.

There's one thing I've always known: You can let people suspect anything else about you, but you must never let them suspect you of knowing what you're doing.

there are only two ways to make a lot [of money] while you're young: One is to entertain the public; and the other is to cheat it.

It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.