“It is an immortal masterpiece. Anybody and everybody today would, I should say, give the rest of their lives to have written it. Anyway I would.”

“And she would say, "Today you believe in God?" And he would say, "Today I believe in love".”

“If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences.”

“I understood finally that the thing I
should have feared most was not loss, but
never loving. The price for safety was the regret
I felt at this moment. And yet I would
have to live with it for the rest of my life”

“To say that I would have done otherwise had I wanted to is simply to say that I would have lived in a different universe had I been in a different universe.”

“Every living thing is a masterpiece, written by nature and edited by evolution.”

“Is "Cowboy Casanova" about the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys? No. I would never immortalize a guy that did me wrong. I would never give him that much credit.”

“I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you — it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.”

“Say that I live, but in such wise that I would not live.”
Vivere me dices, sed sic ut vivere nolim

“Well, I guess in all honesty I would have to say that I never knew nor did I ever hear of anybody that money didnt change.”