I come from a place where you have a lot of sky. But [in New York City] you have to really look up to realize that there is eventually sky, somewhere. ...Sky is not a common commodity.

If you touch something you leave a charge on it, and anybody else touching it connects with you, in a way.

Art is a reflection on life. Life isn’t something we can cut and fix. It’s always in a state of flux.

I wish that I spoke more languages because I think each language is a window completely.

I don't wanna be a Twinkling Star or a Radiant Moon or a Shining Sun. Just to be a Spectacular Sky in their backdrop.

Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then eat just one of the pieces.

If you escape from a necessary fight, pray you will live long enough to wait for and deal with the same challenge that must be settled.

A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.

My advice to all new writers - male or female - it isn't easy, but forge ahead and be true to your originality.

I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written.

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget.