I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

Your choices are where your future begins.

Punching a woman is like punching a one-year old black baby in the face

Something else has happened with computers.

Pioneering don't pay.

One of my favorite things as a teenage girl was getting dressed up to go to shows.

This country isn't working for working people. It's working only for people at the top. That's not the American dream. That's the American nightmare.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.

I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply.

I hate that Mosul is falling, but I also think that for 10 years we have supplied the Iraqis and they can't stand up and do anything to defend their country, and it is all up to us?

To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.