Life

It's a gift of tranquility when your adult desires mesh with your childhood background. I don't quite know why mine didn't, although I think books, again, are partly to blame.

People die, and everything they've ever said just echoes around and around. There's nothing new. Only the same nonsense from their lives.

We should learn to savor some moments to let time feel worth existing.

The more at ease you are in the world, the more vibrant, creative and easygoing the world in you becomes.

The intention (of an artist) is (the same as a scientist)...To discover and reveal what is unsuspected but significant in life.

I like to write literature that reads like pulp fiction.

Magic. It can get a guy killed.

Now I just want it to end. I’ve always wanted the happy ending, but now I’ll just settle for the ending.

We must be content to grow slowly. Most of us will still barely be at the beginning of our recovery by the time we die. But that is better than killing ourselves pretending to be healthy.

My future's about trying to be a better man.

Every true man sir who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants lives so as to give a meaning and a value to his own life.

Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got.

The alcohol had the effect of making the black cloth blacker. This amused her; she had noted in her journal: 'booze affects material as it does people.

When it all comes together, it is oddly beautiful and it makes sense.

They laboriously do nothing.

It's going to start really interfering with your quality of life, your health, if you don't adjust to life as it's happening to you.

I dream of a house full of books.

She was not a girl of ice and glass at all, but a girl of sunshine and stardust.

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.