Each person is alone with his pain, even when others share the same fate.

The heart with letters on it shining like a light bulb through the trim hole painted in the chest, art history.

If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget.

Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.

Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they’re real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.' - Chang Bibi to Anita

I try in my prints to testify that we live in a beautiful and orderly world, and not in a formless chaos, as it sometimes seems.

It doesn't matter where you live...It doesn't matter how you live. It doesn't matter what car you drive. It doesn't matter what kind of clothes you wear.

Roza." His voice had that same wonderful lowness, the same accent . . . it was all just colder. "You forgot my first lesson: Don’t hesitate.

A goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again.

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.

San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.