She looked at the girl in the chair and she saw what youth was. It was oblivious, with things in its ears.

Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.

Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.

To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.

Stella Duffy is a writer who never lets you down.

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

Love is a universal language.

Your life has intrinsic value, not simply because of who you are as an individual, but because of who He is as your God.

Once I was everything, now I'm nothing.You won't only doubt yourself, you doubt life.

I know cigarettes can kill & wonder why she wants to die.

I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.

When we have God in clear focus, His powerful presence eclipses our fear.

If Ross Perot runs, that's good for us. If he doesn't run, it's good for us.

When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame.

Killing for ideas is the most dangerous form of killing at all. Being willing to die for your ideas rather than your country is another concept, but dying for an idea, like in religion, is absurd.

The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.