A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

Why is the measure of love loss?

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.

Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.

This story was a story of our time. And a writer's attempts not to fathom his time amount but to sounding his mind in it.

Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

Ask, believing you have already received, And you shall receive

I am, as I have always been, of the opinion that while the niceties of normal moral constraints should be our guides, they must not be our masters.

I love superconductors.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

Its so boring to just hire a fancy caterer and have them do everything.

There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out.

Let us follow the truth whither so ever it leads.

Why would a married couple that lives together every day need to date each other? It's precisely because they live and sleep together.