The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a curse... It's a form of illness!

You don't understand. You've never hated anybody. No, I never have. We're allotted just so much time on earth, and I wouldn't want the Lord to see me wasting mine in any such manner.

I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.

I'm not a philosopher.

If you can't be friends with a lover, then forget it. It's not going to work.

I think my greatest talent really is for friendship.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.