Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

They laugh at me because I'm different

They want to knowwho I write these poems for.Tell them it's for all loversbecause I don’t see a differencebetween our loveand their love.

A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

If satire is to be effective, the audience must be aware of the thing satirized.

It's weird to me to even say, "I wrote this song." I never feel like I wrote it; I feel like I heard it.

Happy days are here again, The skies above are clear again: Let us sing a song of cheer again, Happy days are here again!

God does not give grace freely in the sense that He will demand no satisfaction, but He gave Christ to be the satisfaction for us.

Being an American musician means being adventurous.

I was a great admirer of George Lucas' work.