Women really are not supposed to be imaginative. That creativity of this kind is supposed to belong to men. You know, because women make babies. I find the double standards shocking.

Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Memory changes as a person matures.

Repeat a lie a thousand times and it become a successful political campaign.

The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole.

The tragedy in sports is seeing a team beaten not by a better team, but by themselves.

First we only want to be seen, but once we’re seen, that’s not enough anymore. After that, we want to be remembered.

Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.

Hi, I'm a hero, but I can't tell you why. It's classified.

Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.

Holiness is not the luxury of a few people, but a simple duty for you and me.