He tried to listen to the conversations going on at the table and he found that he could no longer concentrate on what anyone was saying and which was worse that he was not interested in any of what he was able to hear.

Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.

The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.

The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too.

Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.

Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole.

In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing.