I held on to my better nature by my fingernails but I held on.

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

The full moon symbol on my calendar no longer seemed to be a period marking the end of something, but just another way of counting time.

My bullshit metre is reading that as false'.

...the pleasures of literary fiction are the pleasures of orientation

Following Jesus isn’t something you can do at night where no one notices. It’s a twenty-four-hour-a-day commitment that will interfere with your life. That’s not the small print—that’s a guarantee.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard

I come from a family of traders; my grandmother and my mother were very good at making money.

Anyone, from the most clueless amateur to the best cryptographer, can create an algorithm that he himself can't break.

Jaguar — For men who'd like hand-jobs from beautiful women they hardly know.

If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.

Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.

You can't touch music, but music can touch you