Now I think all of us were born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You... you fill me up.

It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

Here I am, ninety years old and ready for the cooling board, using a brand new Macintosh computer, and there you sit, twenty-two and gorgeous, fresh as a new peach, yet scrawling on a yellow legal pad like an old maid in a Victorian romance.

Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.

I’m not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they’re wearing… I can always get a J. Crew catalogue… …So spare me, if you please, the hero’s ‘sharply intelligent blue eyes’ and ‘outthrust determined chin’.

But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.

Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.