Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

Being with him was like being alone underwater - everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced.

It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.

It's lonely to listen to the pleasure of others, not that I've made a habit of that kind of eavesdropping. There's joy and passion in the next room, in the next bed, but it's not yours.

In some sense, prose fiction is just a way of unlocking a space. If I can unlock the space, it comes out and it's vivid, I find that I care about it, and it's part of me.

Eventually you stop paying attention to your own feelings when there's nothing to be done about them.

I'm attracted to how fraught the parent-child relationship is, swerving so easily between love and hostility, with almost no plausible way to end, unless someone dies.

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.

A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.

A misspelled word is probably an alias for some desperate call for aid, which is bound to fail.

To refrain from storytelling is perhaps one of the highest forms of respect we can pay. Those people, with no stories to circle them, can die without being misunderstood.

India Are Playing Very Good Cricket Under The Leadership Of MS Dhoni.

Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.

Instead of looking for the right person become the right person.

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.

The time has come to listen to the frightened moans of our fellow brothers and sisters and indeed the earth itself is in pain.

To be at the top, you have to have a competitive streak in you. If you're not performing, you've got to be angry with yourself.

Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people.

All I ever wanted was a Virginia farm, no end of cream and fresh butter and fried chicken - not one fried chicken, or two, but unlimited fried chicken.

We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.

There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period.