I'm the author of my own misery.

Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the dead.

Boring people don't know they're boring. That's the problem with boring people.

I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence.

I think it's true that unless human beings experience something, they simply don't understand what people are going through.

I don't think anybody says to Coetzee or Dostoyevsky or Kafka, "Your characters aren't likeable." It's not about your character winning a popularity contest. That's not the writer's job.

It's not the writer who determines how good she is anyway. Writers don't determine that. It's readers who determine that.

Do the obvious, you won't forget it. Do the obvious, you won't regret it. Obvious, obvious, obvious.

Nonfiction gives you subjects. Writing fiction I can have more fun, but I have to invent my subject.

Without curiosity a writer is dead.

I don't believe a picture is worth a thousand words, unless they're very confusing words.

Love is the only truth and the only way

There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.

Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place.

Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

I have long ties to the women's community.

When I am ever in any situation that's getting too heavy, I lighten it up with humor.

She was made of flesh and eyelashes.

Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.

If you want to reach out for something new, you must first let go of what’s in your hand.