A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence.

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Most Religions are Social Clubs with expensive Entertainment Cheap Wine and Stale Crackers

Sometimes the best gifts are the ones you can't get on your own.

My growing collection of facts keeps overlapping with my life.

It's not that war crimes stop as soon as a novel about them is published. Literature operates slowly, it is always inching toward bliss, never quite getting there.

I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time.

The choices you make today design your future

You've got to be tough to win.

To make a mountain out of a mole-hill.

One of the most important things to me is to make things real, not have models who are perfectly groomed or clothes that are too perfect. It all has to have a twist because that's how people live.