I know the next best thing is often the very best.

But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness; for us, death is stronger than life, it pulls like a wind through the dark, all our cries burlesqued in joyless laughter; and with the garbage of loneliness stuffed down us until our guts burst bleeding green, we go screaming round the world, dying in our rented rooms, nightmare hotels, eternal homes of the transient heart.

When I'm writing, I never write more than four hours a day.

He’d always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist.

Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

A beautiful day with the buoyancy of a bird.