People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it turns out that it's largely not true. Fiction writing is like gossip. It's not malicious gossip, but it's gossip.

I always do the wrong. I do the wrong thing so much that the times I actually do the right thing stand out so brightly in my memory that I forget I always do the wrong thing.

Things between us were dissolving like an ice cub in a glass: the smaller it got, the faster it disappeared.

A funny line can never exist on its own. It needs to be surrounded by mood and circumstances.

We were in dialogue that was about something other than what we were saying.

When you find out who you are, you will no longer be innocent. That will be sad for others to see. All that knowledge will show on your face and change it. But sad only for others, not for yourself. You will feel you have a kind of wisdom, very mistaken, but a mistake of some power to you and so you will sadly treasure it and grow it.

She smiled at him, with longing. 'Where do you live,' she asked, 'and how do I get there?