Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Love is Future End that you live in you in present to forgot something opposite of your expectations.

Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.

Beautiful songs and voice echo in my heart.

Our family life was certainly not intellectual.

I've never dated (casually). Ever. It's kind of weird. I did have a boyfriend in junior high who was a kleptomaniac. We'd leave stores and he'd come out with something for me.

When you reach that elite level, 90 percent is mental and 10 percent is physical. You are competing against yourself. Not against the other athlete.

Of course, you play the game of life because you got to be incarnated.

Looking out for your children is an ongoing process throughout your life.

Real love is comforting, to be sure, but not always at first.

Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.