Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.

Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Memory changes as a person matures.

Consistency in action is an essential component of success.

She looks very virtuous and very melancholy.""Virtue is like the precious odors, most fragrant when it is crushed.

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a 'Negro' fraction.

What you must do, do cheerfully.

If you LIKE your email provider, you can KEEP your email provider. Period.

A consumer doesn't take anything away: he doesn't actually consume anything. Giving the same thing to a thousand consumers is not really any more expensive than giving it to just one.

Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.

Let the Hunger Games Begin!

What a teacher needs to know about psychology "might almost be written on the palm of one's hand."