The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.

Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

I am drawn to any story that makes me want to read from one sentence to the next. I have no other criterion.

A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

Somehow, bad news, however ridden with static, however filled with echoes, always manages to be conveyed.

The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.

That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bound together.

It didn't matter that I wore clothes from Sears; I was still different. I looked different. My name was different. I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different.

I see him in my mind's eye, feel him in my soul...twin flames will unite.

Man kept control over the machines he created, I wish God would have done the same with the man he created.

It is as if we find ourselves on a ship in the middle of the ocean, with the captain making the point that we are free to leave.

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

My dad and my mom convinced me to go into biomedical engineering because they said astronauts going to Mars will need life support systems.

I believe nuclear energy in Jordan will be done in such a way where it is a public-private partnership so everyone can see exactly what's going on.

The way our brain is wired up we only see what we believe is possible.

Anyone who turns love between two consenting adults into a negative, doesn't understand the meaning of the word.

I thought my song was beginning that day, but it was almost done.

We shall seek debate without division or rancour.