Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

Under the seams runs the pain.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

Power up your intelligence. Hit that creativity button.

Life at best is bittersweet.

Most people say, 'Never let anyone change you.' Well, I must say that this only applies to those who are living in the positive direction.

I never want to know the range of my voice. It has to be impulsive, and I don't want to kill the mystery.

I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.

The leader finds the dream and then the people. The people find the leader and then the dream.

I don't do a ton of deals a year, and I really like working with startups - it's the only way I can invest. It fits my ADD brain.

I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.

Only in Heaven will everything be as beautiful as spring, as pleasant as autumn, and as full of love as summer.

The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down.