There is a type of writer that can happily bury themselves in the country and dig very deep, but I'm not like that.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

You can set your mind to anything, just keep concentrating.

Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.

If folks don't like the way you look, they almost never take the time to find anything out about you. They just make up their own stories

You are not a burden, an accident, or a mistake. You are meant for amazing things that you can't even imagine for yourself.

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.

The difference between a poet and a philosopher is that the poet sees logically and describes basically the beauty whereas the philosopher defines the basics and shows the beauty of logics.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election.

When the horse was little, Massie had covered the walls with posters of young fillies that she thought Brownie would find sexy.

A clear rejection is always better than a fake promise.