The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.

Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.

Not enough attention is paid to the negative side of fashion. Great effort is exerted to make people look smart, but somebody should face the fact that a lot of people never will be smart, and that they should be given some assistance in maintaining their fascinating dowdiness.

Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.

Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.

The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.

Everything matters. The Universe is approximately fifteen billion years old, and I swear that in all that time, nothing has ever happened that has not mattered, has not contributed in some way to the totality.