I can forgive almost any crime if a great story is left in its wake.

A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.

The most powerful words in English are, "Tell me a story.

Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all.

I have built a city from the books I've read. A good book sings a a timeless music that is heard in the choir lofts, and balconies, and theaters that thrived within that secret city inside me.

Who needs them when we have each other?

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.

Since the revelations, we have seen a massive sea change in the technological basis and makeup of the Internet.

As a bit of loner, prone to melancholy, with a questionable sexuality, I found great solace in the words of-Dylan, Joni, John Prine and Leonard Cohen. The darker the better.

It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity.

The clash of ideas is not weakness. Truth reaches its place when tussling with error.

I put a lot of work into my lyrics. Not all my stuff is meant to be scrutinized, though.

A wanted pregnancy as much as a dreaded pregnancy can play differently than all one's previous imaginings.

All change is in the screen.

You never know. Down the road you can do a lot of product categories. But I think you really have to build your core first and for people to know you and respect you for that.