If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.

Plutocracy.' It has a perfect nuance: chilly, inaccessible, icy-rich.

Why can’t our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other?

The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.

The mist hung in the air like a prancing unicorn.

The blood in my veins is frozen but it sings of love.

The overintellectualization of surrealism can be a bromide. A dream interpreted is a deflated dream.

It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.

Rome is a place almost worn out by being looked at, a city collapsing under the weight of reference.

I've been a professional writer for 20 years, and there are contours in that time, crescents and troughs.

I am less interested in ghosts than in people who see ghosts.

Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history.

Wear perfume wherever you want to be kissed!

School used to be an escape. Now it's just another place with too much pressure, too much confrontation, & so not enough joy.

The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.

Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to her heart, purified by love.

The artist is obliged to invent the self who will paint his pictures.

I know that I'm breaking down barriers. And I know that in the end I'm doing a great thing.

You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling.

A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he has no theology.

I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day.