Just for the hell of it, try to love someone as unlike you as possible.

Maybe life is a process of trading hopes for memories.

Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?

Death is ordinary. Behold it, subtract its patterns and lessons from those of the death that weapons bring, and maybe the residue will show what violence is.

When I go train hopping and I look up into the sky, there are always so many more stars than I remember there were.

Death cannot be experienced either by the dead or the living.

The instant people specialize, its in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.

[Ernest ]Hemingway always said, "Write about what you know." I think you can do that, and if you want to write about what you don't know, you can. It just takes a lot more work.

At least I hope - that the fiction I've written so far has flaws but has mostly been successful.

I feel like I'm almost ready to write fiction about the border. But even after 10 years of writing nonfiction about it, I don't think I know quite enough to do it right.

There will come a time when nobody reads my books and no one remembers who I was. And in the meantime, I'll do it my way.

When was it that they who dwell upon the earth have not sinned in thy sight? or what people have so kept thy commandments? Thou shall find that you all by name had kept thy precepts

The body is a dwelling of the spirit.

She knew that pleasure, to be pleasure, must come to an end.

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.

The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.

Love is a game in which one always cheats.

I started in musicals. My first professional experience was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in Palm Springs.

Education is the power terrorists fear most.

We inhabit a universe that is still inventing itself