It's the cynics who never get married.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

Satisfaction is ending each day knowing you were kind, honest and treated people well.

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

If your gonna drop out of school / tough grades are not your goal / then change your name to Candy and learn to work a pole.

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

The independence of the economic sphere was a tenet of faith with Liberalism

A half-truth does more mischief than a whole lie.

As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any.

I was a gymnast for years.

There was a rock in front of my hut, a tall, gray rock. By its looks it seemed to be well-disposed toward me.

I'm glad I don't play anymore. I could never learn all those handshakes.