“The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.”

“One of the reasons why I liked living in Manhattan was that the city would share your mood the moment you walked out the door. If you were in a hurry, everything else was too, even the pigeons. You...”

“The angel said, "I like black-and-white films more than color because they're more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It's sort of like prayer.”

“Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts...”

“Yo can always take back the lost parts of yourself if you can find and recognize them.”

“She was 3/4 perfection and 1/4 broken glass.”

“Sometimes you can write about a character's day in under a minute and sometimes it takes a day just to write about a minute.”

“Semua orang pernah patah hati. All you have to do is move on.”

“A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.”

“If you only write when youre inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but youll never be a novelist because youre going to have to make your word count today and those words arent going to wait fo...”

“The short story, I should point out, is perforce a labor of love in today's literary world; there's precious little economic incentive to write one...”