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.

Talk between women friends is always therapy.

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.

We ran as if to meet the moon.

The people need a strong leader. They feel insecure if they don’t know who to fear. Isn’t that why god was invented?

We'll attack anyone who tries to harm our citizens.

Feminism, as it stands, well... stands. It has ground to a halt.

I think bolstering free trade is a boon to the dollar.

I don't want to overstate the gender difference. But women are more sensitized to the way that larger issues affect their pocketbooks, like pay equality or cost of living changes.

The scaffold has never yet and never will destroy an idea or a movement.

Our life is a constant journey, from birth to death. The landscape changes, the people change, our needs change, but the train keeps moving. Life is the train, not the station.

The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program.

Destroy the family, you destroy the country.