I love movies, I love television, I love narratives of all kinds.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

Reading... a vacation for the mind....

If nothing lasts forever, then I am forever nothing.

I always find something to keep me busy.

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook.

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

Anything that requires thought is just too much.

When I saw Fannie Lou Hamer speech I said, "Well, how did this Democratic Party that Miss Hamer is talking about, become the Democratic Party that now is the party of the African-American community?"

The multiple roles that women can play in a society if given the opportunity is really a tremendous asset.

No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.