The only book that is worth writing is the one we don’t have the courage or strength to write. The book that hurts us (we who are writing), that makes us tremble, redden, bleed

Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.

Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write yourself. Your body must be heard.

We must learn to speak the language women speak when there is no one there to correct us.

Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me.

We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.

Everything ends with flowers.

I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.

Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.

There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn’t-eat.

Me too, I make do, I anoint what cannot be fixed.

The man was married to a half-fae, half-human woman, a banshee, who'd' just delivered twins. It was a wonder his hair wasn't completely prematurely white.

For everyone you create to be dependent on you, you are equally dependent on them. Neither relationship is healthy.

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

I encounter really tough men and women who are just so harsh, you can't bend them. You do come across these kinds of people in every profession-just unyielding.

I'd never taken to four foot creatures who had the uncanny ability to point out all my flaws in thirty second flat. And just for the record, I can too read without moving my lips.

When you're on camera, you can't think of all the technical things.

Nothing chastens a planner more than the knowledge that he will have to carry out the plan.

I take around 60 trips a year for business so I can't say that I enjoy the act of travelling itself. I wish I could be transported to my destination without having to go on the journey to get there.

To say Congress is spending like drunken sailors is an insult to drunken sailors.