That's what perfect means. You're finished.

Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.

I sometimes think that we expect too much resolution in this world.

Early in the phase of being in a female body, there's all this desire that comes at you, a lot of it hostile, a lot of it dangerous, a lot of it ruinous.

I do some messing around with things, not necessarily about me but about place and people and the things around.

I grew up flying over oceans and moving and sailing.

There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.

You can sometimes find something good on the other side of doing something very, very painful.

In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy.

I don't think you can have an imagination without having fantasy, and you can't have that rich a life without an imagination.

I've always wanted to figure out how to do a walking story. I'd never figured out how to do one and have it work or be interesting or have anything that it's about.

The only limits for tomorrow are the doubts we have today.

Dreams have to be made real, not reality changed into dreams.

You can say the Earth is flat, but it doesn't mean you're going to fall off the edge.

Growing old-it's not nice, but it's interesting.

Better to die than to live in fear.

I grew up in Washington, D.C. But also loving the theater.

Pharisaism is not a degeneration in a good man: a large portion of it is rather the condition of all being-good.

Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.

If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood.

I went into the army worth a million and a half dollars, and came out a beggar.