I think that thing about the destruction of the world is there all the time, it's there every day when we look out the window.

To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.

People do not love those whose eyes show that they are somewhere else

The declared meaning of a spoken sentence is only its overcoat, and the real meaning lies underneath its scarves and buttons.

I have never begun a novel which wasn't going to stretch me further than I had ever stretched before.

I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.

Swimming always cleans your soul

It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.

My greatest pleasure is to invent. My continual mad ambition is to make something true and beautiful that never existed in the world before.

The moonlight caught the glint of his lip ring, which he was now fondling with the tip of his tongue as he stared down at me. It was a bit awkward.

Learn to wait on the Lord! That will help you to walk your pathway in life in the power and glory of God.

I was always lucky that I've always had a gig, I'm fortunate in that way.

People can be a fine substitute for other dogs. But I think that if they had to choose, dogs by and large would choose the company of other dogs.

People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it ironically.

If you are looking for a whale you cannot search for a whale in a pond. You must go to deep waters.

Listen, someone's screaming in agony- fortunately I speak it fluently

Honestly, if I can plan out a few meals ahead of time, I feel much more organized.

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides.

I believe we're responsible for everything that happens to us.