For obviously the advantage for most writers is that no one sees them. The writer is invisible, which confers power.

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 are three qualities that every individual must have to achieve success: a Monk’s patience, a Warrior’s courage, a Child’s imagination.

The prettier the wine bottle, the higher the likelihood sorority girls will buy it.

The past with its pleasures its rewards its foolishness its punishments is there for each of us forever and it should be.

We commit not only theoretical error but also moral wrong in objectifying ourselves or other rational beings, ignoring their capacities for free action and communicative interaction with us.

I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think what makes sense.

A woman in love is helpless.

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.

As a gardener, I'm among those who believe that much of the evidence of God's existence has been planted.

If you have to design something, choose things that we need as opposed to frivolous things that we might just want for a month or two for bragging rights.