I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and there may come a time when I will dread giving up a novel at all.

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!

Oneness is God.

I dip my forefinger in the watery blood of your impotent mad redeemer, and write over his thorn-torn brow: The true prince of evil- the king of the slaves!

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

The only way to control chaos and complexity is to give up some of that control

I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.

so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another

I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.

That is our ‘pointed task. Love & die.

Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expect a kiss.

The business of government is to keep the government out of business - that is, unless business needs government aid.