choice Quotes

It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth.

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

If you don't believe what other people believe, then they'll accuse you of being nihilistic.

The only thing I shy away from is non-consensual violence. I can't write a story where someone is a simple victim because it's boring.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.