Good writing is rewriting.

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.

There's lots of things you don't know. All kinds of strange things . . . mostly they happened before we were born: that makes them seem to me so much more real.

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

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.

[Y]outh is hardly human: it can't be, for the young never believe they will die...especially would they never believe that death comes, and often, in forms other than the natural one.

Wrinkles and bones, white hair and diamonds: I can't wait.