I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write.

Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.

It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.

I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.

There and then, sitting beside her and within the strength of my adoration, I felt invincible.

The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into.

When I first began writing In the Country of Men all I had was the voice of the protagonist. He intrigued me and my desire to want to know him and his world became almost compulsive.

And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.

And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that 'knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.

Can you become a man without becoming your father?

Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place.

The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not

I can maintain my sense of the sacredness of existence only by understanding my own limitations and losing my self-importance.

I have the same problem as Edward Furlong. I'm so thin!

Women are secretaries of state and prime ministers - but people still don't expect women to be involved in violence.

There are no happy endings, because nothing ends.

The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about -- indeed obsess about -- is life before birth and after death.

I've built companies, I've created jobs, I know the frustration of small businesses with higher taxes.

"Benedetto" means the "blessed one" and I feel that I have truly been blessed.

Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.