The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.

You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal

We all have names we don't know about.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

He awoke at six, as usual. He needed no alarm clock. He was already comprehensively alarmed.

The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable

And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.

Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions.

Love is an abstract noun, something nebulous. And yet love turns out to be the only part of us that is solid, as the world turns upside down and the screen goes black.

I realize that you have to show up for your life.

I think because I became a mom later in life, everything in life means more.

Life begins at 40, and I'm living proof.

I look at all the things life has allowed me to do, and I feel like the luckiest person in the world.

“Life has more to it than living, just as a forest is more than its trees”

You don't want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That's what I'm missing right now.

I'm not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they're going through. I don't know if that's the healthiest thing, but it's the truth.

I don't do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.

If you don't live your life, then who will?

Single life is so overrated.

I'm really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

Love Poem ـــــــــ It's so nice to wake up in the morning all alone and not have to tell somebody you love them when you don't love them any more.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.