Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

Most beautiful things comes to us free of charge.

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." -

Do what you know is right, but try not to get caught.

Few people who are hit once by someone they love respond in the way they might to a singular physical assault by a stranger.

Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.

You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.

In California today, you may save more water by not eating a pound of beef than you would by not showering for six entire months.

I'm an insomniac lately. It's one of the many prizes you find in the Cracker Jack box of a crumbling [relationship].

I would like to ban people being allowed to text while in a crosswalk.