Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.

This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that’s gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

Show me a character totally without anxieties and I will show you a boring book.

If a stranger taps you on the ass and says, "How's the little lady today!" you will probably cringe. But if he's an American, he's only being friendly.

Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.