It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.

Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.

Fading light buttered the ridges until shadows licked them clean and they were lost to nightfall.

Never. Never ask for what ought to be offered.

The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

He unscrewed the lid, set it on the dash, snorted from the bottle twice, banged the steering wheel, and said, 'You got to be ready to die every day - then you got a chance.'

Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again.

I said shut up once already, with my mouth.

This is how sudden things happened that haunted forever.

The opening novel of the 'Bayou Trilogy' was the first one I finished.

I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.

It was like walking into a treasure trove of books, hoarded by pirate librarians.

The speed of movement towards independence will depend on Kosovo demonstrating that it is capable of treating minorities well. We have not always seen that.

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

You can't murder a man who's been dead for five centuries.

I was born where there were no enclosures.

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

I don't really drink, and I've never been to a rave. I used to cut school to read Shakespeare, not to make out in the park.

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet

I am excited to have the opportunity to help provide the same swim instruction that I received as a child when I was enrolled in a water safety class at five-years-old.

From the outside, I seem happy a lot. But, I'm human and it's not possible to always be happy.