I will do anything. Anything, Blaire, just to be near you. I can’t think about anything else. I can’t focus on anything. So never think you’re inconveniencing me. You need me, I’m there.

Give into love or live in fear.

Poverty is being single.

When the devil wants to punish his worshippers, he uses the trick of karma.

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.

If your neighbors did an analysis of your life, what would they learn about the kingdom?

Any woman can face the world alone, but why should we have to?

How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?

I loved school, I loved putting on my uniform and doing homework every day. I was one of those good students that the teachers liked. I guess that's got to be a pretty nerdy, geeky part of me.