I've been keeping diaries for 27 years.

The Greeks had invented democracy, built the Acropolis and called it a day.

Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings.

A zoo is a good place to make a spectacle of yourself, as the people around you have creepier, more photogenic things to look at.

There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows.

All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Everyone looks retarded once you set your mind to it.

I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.

Like all of my friends, she's a lousy judge of character.

A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit.

I pray for humble spirit and a willing heart.

Fight for the things that matter to you. Inspire yourself. Believe in the power of positive thinking.

It (the sun) didn't really care how I felt, it was going to rise and set regardless of whether I noticed it, and if I was going to enjoy it, that was up to me.

The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

I feel sad that we have allowed these knee-jerk feminists who want to act like it's a struggle against men...but again that's the least politically developed strand of feminism.

This fraternity... makes it possible... for so many millions of people, not so much to kill, as willingly to die for such limited imaginings.

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.

With dedication towards a destination and some perspiration one gets their heartfelt realization.

Time never runs backward when I need it to. Not for me, and not for anyone else.

I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.