If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?

- Zoë Heller

It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it.

- Zoë Heller

...what is romance, but a mutual pact of delusion? When the pact ends , there's nothing left.

- Zoë Heller

We are bound by the secrets we share.

- Zoë Heller

Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.

- Zoë Heller

When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.

- Zoë Heller

I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.

- Zoë Heller

It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.

- Zoë Heller

I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger of crushing the …

- Zoë Heller