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Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling.
He tricked himself into thinking that she would look into his eyes and remember, that love would conquer all.
She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.
She wasn’t sure if he wanted more from her or if he wanted less. Maybe it was both. Maybe it was always both.
Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.
Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.
You can cycle through London on the side streets, which are less polluted - and much more interesting anyway.
Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand.
I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.
I wanted to write literature that pushed people into their lives rather than helping people escape from them.
The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins.
Tightfisted people are as mean with friendship as they are with cash--suspicious, unbelieving, and incurious.
I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.
There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.
Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.
I discovered that maybe it was fate all along, that faith was just an illusion that somehow you're in control.
The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.
Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.
I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.
I'm constantly having to check my conscience about what I'm writing and the responsibility of what I'm saying.
It was so interesting to discover Nixon was a Californian. I always think Nixon should come from a cold place.
If there is a war to be fought, we don’t consider cost one of the factors in deciding whether or not to fight.
Men and women are moved by tides much fiercer than you can imagine, and they sweep us all up into the current.
The best sort of activity is one that combines mental effort with sensuous delight. That's why I love drawing.
If you find my stories dirty, the society you are living in is dirty. With my stories, I only expose the truth
I'm fascinated by caddy Buddhists popping up all over Hollywood and people that take themselves too seriously.
I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.
I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me.
Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.
how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?
Don't think too much. That makes you believe you have more choices than you do. Then you mind becomes confused.
In the mid-1800s, they were known also as 'singsong houses,' and the courtesans were actually master musicians.
You surround yourself with your pain or you avoid it and let it find you when you are trying to do other things
We flashed our feathers when the feathers were fit to be flashed, and now, in drearier days, many stay indoors.
It was one thing to have guessed it, another to have had that guess confirmed beyond possibility of refutation.
I don't think people change; electronics change, the things we have change, but the way we live doesn't change.
I'm very lucky in that my agent and my editors know better. They don't push me. Because I don't take that well.
You never imagine that the Green Bay Packers were going to be in something you wrote or singing 'Bootylicious.'
No gangster is ever happy when he's at peace. The main reason he's in the business is to eliminate his enemies.
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.
It should be a firmly established part of the curriculum that children should visit theatres and concert halls.
I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring.
The funny response to 'One Mississippi' continues to be that people don't know what is true and what's fiction.
Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!
Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5
People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your mind.
My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.
My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put into the novel.
Sometimes you couldn’t face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again.