I love to imagine inside the head of a woman.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

In history, as elsewhere, fools rush in, and the angels may perhaps be forgiven if rather than tread in those treacherous paths they tread upon the fools instead.

This was good, except that now I had two crazed, burning zombies standing between me and the exit, plus another one that wasn’t on fire. I had not thought this plan through at all.

I feel all those human beings to be pernicious who can no longer oppose what they love: they thereby ruin the best things and people.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain. I'll say it again. God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.

To find rest unto our souls includes peace of mind and heart, which is the result of learning and following the doctrine of Christ.

If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.