I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

Being with him was like being alone underwater - everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced.

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.

In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.

Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.

I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.

This life is our shared dream.We all may meet again in reality.

Beauty without grace is like a fish far displaced from the water and looking at this kind of beauty is like watching that fish die right there on the cement in front of you.

Everybody thinks it’s going to be different for them, Janice said. The dinosaurs thought so too.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful impressive and widely effective mode of saying things.

I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever.

Will I be something? Am I something? And the answer comes: You already are. You always were. And you still have time to be.

Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.

I feel my absolute best physically, mentally and spiritually when I'm surfing every day.

We are all bathed in the same light.

We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.