"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."

"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."

"You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me."

"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."

"Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."

"I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't."

"I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity."

"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."

"And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy."

"Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away."

"I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again."

"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong."

"Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy."

"I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

"Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder."

"You have to think anyway, so why not think big?"

"If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big."

"I'm constantly astounded by how amazing women are. And as we go through all these different stages of life as long as you share them with others and say, 'Well, this is bloody weird', you can get through everything."

"I never do any television without chocolate. That's my motto and I live by it. Quite often I write the scripts and I make sure there are chocolate scenes. Actually I'm a bit of a chocolate tart and will eat anything. It's amazing I'm so slim."

"I've always had a way with the little people, making it a point to humor them without looking down my nose at their wasted empty lives."

"Say what you will about the south, but in North Carolina a hot dog is free to swing anyway it wishes."

"It's safe to assume that by 2085 guns will be sold in vending machines but you won't be able to smoke anywhere in America."