I know that as a writer I'm trying to, in some small way, return the gift that I got, and maybe provide a reader the kind of experience that has changed my life.

Sometimes I think of writing as becoming this antenna that picks up the vibrations all around me in order to find out how and where next I'll be steered.

Home is a complex and resonant idea.

I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself in all its capacities.

Sometimes the 'day' you're dreaming for never comes. Take control of your future and start now.

Everyone who isn't us is an enemy." - Cersei

There is nothing on earth so stupid as a gallant officer.

Though thou be destined to live three thousand years and as many myriads besides, yet remember that no man loseth other life than that which he liveth, nor liveth other than that which he loseth.

my love had grown one with my soul; it became darker, but did not go out

Traveling teaches us that we're all the same. Some of us just encounter more opportunities.

Television was one of those magnificent kind of events where everything fell into place.

Law is not a trade, not briefs, not merchandise, and so the heaven of commercial competition should not vulgarize the legal profession.

I went to the 30th reunion of my preschool. I didn't want to go, because I've put on like a hundred pounds.

The prescription is that the subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.