What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.

Like humans, birds mourn the loss of fledglings and mates. There are a thousand variant weeping songs to sing. I had to sign mine and get on with it. That is what I did

It’s a case of mistaken identity. It’s one big mistake. You weren’t even in the country when it happened.”Maja in the short story 'Metro' by Steen Langstrup

One hate crime is committed approximately every hour of every day in this country.

I don't think my father was a bad man, all in all.

I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex.

I've never read Joseph Campbell, and I don't know all that much about story archetypes.

The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it

Of all the heavenly gifts that mortal men commend, What trusty treasure in the world can counterfail a friend?

Tell me your doctrine of the Fall and I will tell you the state of your theology.

Right now I'm just trying to survive, I know I'm gonna get there, dead or alive.