I feel like people who become writers are people who have been saved by books.

I'd much prefer my books to shoes...In the summer I sometimes take walks without shoes but never without a novel.

Harder than waking from a nightmare was trying to wake herself into one.

You cannot learn to curse like an American.

The Jewish day begins in the calm of evening, when it won't shock the system with its arrival.

I also knew that the deep rumble rolling through us was only nerves, a sensitivity to imagined repercussion, as if a sound were built into revenge.

For children in their most impressionable years, there is, in fantasy, the highest of stimulating and educational powers.

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.

The fact that someone says something doesn't mean it's true. Doesn't mean they're lying, but it doesn't mean it's true.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance.

I didn't know Kurt Cobain or Amy Winehouse, but I was affected by both of their deaths because I admired their work so much and mourned their youth and work they would never produce.

Isn't that the ultimate homeland security, standing up and defending marriage?

Goodness knows she is too fierce for you Goodness knows she has eyes for a lord Goodness knows she yet will prove untrue Her cheek's blush is as false as her word

No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.

In my store, anyone and everyone is welcome.