I love the long grass coming up to meet the willows.
Sandy is kind. But she has a smart mind
True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories.
The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.
The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
(F)iction is...what ought to have been, not what actually was. At least, not exactly.
I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.
I'm white and I don't dance, but that doesn't mean I have all the answers.
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
'Blue Nights' is a story of loss: simple, wrenching, inconsolable loss.
Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.
The revolution lasted six minutes and covered one hundred an twelve meters.
Art cannot be bought or sold. It can only be created or destroyed.
Cynicism is the calling card of unhappy people.
Economists, like royal children, are not punished for their errors.
I can't tell a lie - not even when I hear one.
There are exciting, intelligent, fat people - and exciting, intelligent, thin people.
If you're still in a bar when the lights go on, you are a loser.
I don't want the IRS banging down my door.
There is nothing more attractive than a man who is not a New Man.
A capacity for going overboard is a requisite for a full-grown mind.
