At least that left hope for him. Except "Beauty and the Geek" wasn’t exactly the proper translation of the popular fairy tale.

Maybe pulling her emotions out and inserting in his logic would change this morbid course. But damn if he’d joke about it like she did.

This was sharing office space with wacko and bordering on ludicrous.

I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many.

I think fiction allows us to sit for a while with people we would rather not meet.

Anyone out without the excuse of a dog should be handcuffed and searched for loneliness.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.

When the people call Earth 'Mother,' they take with love and with love give back so that all may live.

Doing more of what doesn't work doesn't work.

No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

Oh dear me, the Booker people don't like me. I don't care. I have been given an award for being taken not seriously, and I am very, very pleased about that.

I don't want there to always be this stigma of the "female" artist. "Oh, what does it feel like to be a female doing something?" That hurts me.