Okay, I’ll just jump right out and say it. I have anxiety issues.

It’s not like I planned it. I never woke up from some rosy dream and said, “Okay, world, today I’m gonna spaz.

She also understood there was a hole in her heart where her son should be, that she was a wicked, selfish woman for wishing him back.

She was no stripper with a heart of gold, that was for sure. A heart of steel, more like.

We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.

You’re saying, “What the hell am I gonna do with her?” You’re saying, “Shit, did she take her pills?” You’re saying, “Once upon a time, I used to have a little girl.

Writing is a solitary business. It’s just you and your characters and a blank page you need to fill.

I long for some connection, to the real and those who love them, and hope that my fiction can reach beyond the veil, that I might touch someone and make them feel something…or something.

A woman brings so much more to the world than birth, for she can birth discovery, intelligence, invention, art, just as well as any man.

Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please.

When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never.

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

Death brings out the beauty in life.

It cost me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. 'Aha my little dear' I say 'Your clan will pay me back one day.'

Nations like individuals have to limit their objectives or take the consequences.

For the most part, that message hasn't changed a lot over the years - love is still love, and heartbreak is still heartbreak.

The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.

You mean you have to be epic already, for it to make you more epic?

I'm so over the moon that I have the opportunity to represent my country at a third Olympic Games.

Along my journey / through this transitory world, / new year's housecleaning.

I just wanna see a UFO, really