Let them say whatever gives them comfort.

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.

We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

Andrew had a gift for deepening the incision he began.

on a bike ride through the Surrey Lanes, pedalling in my cotton dress through the hot fields blushing with poppies, freewheeling down a sudden dip into a cool wooded sanctum.

Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.

I want to be a journalist again. I want to make a difference in the world.

There are countries of the world, and regions of one's own mind, where it is unwise to travel.

...disaster, when it is quite sure of its own strength, will announce itself by hardly moving its lips...

She said it was beautiful to be loved, and that it made everything on earth look brighter.

We’ll make out for a while and you’ll feel better.

When excellence comes in at the door, failure flies out the window.

You don’t like what you see out your window, you put up a wall.

A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets.

I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.

Diamonds talk, and I can stand listenin' to 'em often.

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature.