The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

New York is a diamond iceberg floating in river water.

I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.

Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.

Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.

A work of art is one of mystery, the one extreme magic; everything else is either arithmetic or biology.