Talk between women friends is always therapy.

Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.

Love is the outlaw's duty.

If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.

The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.

Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.

Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

I wish I had more time to write.

My mind can be ugly. But when I read something of mine that I think is beautiful, I'm reminded my mind can be beautiful too.

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

The President should spend his time going after the terrorists rather than sharing sensitive counter terrorism information with countries that sponsor terrorism.

I was taken by a morsell, saies the fish. [I was taken by a morsel, says the fish.]

Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

Once thoroughly our own, the knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?

There is nothing you cannot be, there is nothing you cannot do. There is nothing you cannot have.

For many people my software is something that you install and forget. I like to keep it that way.