Fiction writing feels more honest to me.

The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest

But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.

To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches.

... the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches.

I’m a creature of the night.” Slitted eyes peered at her suspiciously. “Good God, you’re not a morning person, are you?

Without the friendship we'd never have discovered the reason we were friends.

I really love sharing my gift with others. At the same time, I'm just a normal kid having fun and that's what life is all about-having fun at the same time as helping people.

That's what in theory differentiates a writer from everyone else. You see and hear more clearly.

Truth is what most contradicts itself.

I'm always the one with the activist friends. I've been an activist very little.

I know that I'm here - I believe that I'm here for a purpose. I believe in forces of fate.

I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.

Nevertheless, when one is ill, one should be submissive to the doctor and obey him.

Your thighs are appletrees whose blossoms touch the sky. Your knees are a southern breeze.