Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing.

Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.

When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.

I think it's very funny that someone would exaggerate to make himself look worse.

In a memoir, I think, the contract implies a certain degree of truth. I think you have to be as true to your memory and your experience as you possibly can.

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

Novels are forged in passion, demand fidelity and commitment, often drive you to boredom or rage, sleep with you at night.

They were good parents. The worst thing they ever did to us was die.

We are each other's harvest

I would not bend.They could not make me Pliable.My mind was strong.My mind was mine.

When she had died, his anchor was gone and the world had burned from his untethered insanity.

Those that would attain wisdom, prefer the empty stadium.Those who wish to appear wise, prefer it full.

Women are prevented by the threat and reality of male violence from entering public space on equal terms with male citizens.

I spent most of my seventh grade summer dehydrated, green-tongued, and smelling like a Malaysian whorehouse.

there are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds

Hillary Clinton said she hopes America is ready for a woman in the Oval Office. That was the great thing about her husband Bill: he was always ready for a woman in the Oval Office.

JIBO isn't an appliance, it's a companion, one that can interact and react with its human owners in ways that delight instead of disturb.

Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.