It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.

It would be nice to avoid the world, to leave it and all its threats and unhappiness. Not to die or anything like that, but to find a place of solitude and solace.

It doesn't matter how big the body, it's what you do with it.

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.

He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.

I don't think I began to be a professional writer until I learned my weaknesses and what I couldn't do. This forced me to compensate.