Reality is in the business of killing off fiction.

Love is like a reptile, you cut off its tail and it grows another one." Kiss Me Judas

I must be dead for there is nothing but blue snow and the furious silence of a gunshot.

Anything you can imagine is probably true. And the worst you can imagine is probably worth money.

And my life went to pieces, like a love letter in the rain.

Disappear, she says. I love that word.

I am so stupid, so easily fooled. It's really almost funny. If I could lift a finger I would gladly kill myself.

A friend is like anything else. A dog, a plant. You ignore them and they tend to die on you.

Sorrow is like the ocean and sometimes I wish my heart would stop.

...men are much softer than women, more sentimental. They cry at the movies and pretend not to. The male of the species is weak. He doesn’t tolerate pain well.

If I send all the books that I faithfully wrote overseas, would that, for any chance, be considered work-shipping??

‎All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

What is without dispute...is that the readers need [the BookWorld] just as much as we need them—to bring order to their apparent chaos, if nothing else.

So long as mists envelop you, be still. Be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists - as it surely will. Then act with courage.

Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things.

It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.

Unless an entire row of people got up in the middle of a performance and left the theater in disgust, I felt as though I hadn't done my job.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

The body is a bundle of careful compromises.

I don't want to be an editor - I want to be really forward about that. I would be a horrible editor.