Each genre exerts a considerable spell, as a kind of "form" to be filled, as a Shakespearean sonnet is filled.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

There was never any question that I would go to college, that I would travel, that I would go to the theater early and often.

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited.

Health is a function of three things. 1. Luck 2. Genetics and 3. Choices in your lifestyle.

Forgive me... for my love -for ruining you with my love.

Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some." Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.

A world in everlasting conflict between the new idea and the old allegiances, new arts and new inventions against the old establishment.

Which is the supplement? Fantasy or daily routine?

What other movement determines the S line? Its aesthetic efficacity has long been noted by artists.

The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.

There is a direct correlation between am increased sphere of comfort and getting what you want.