Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

Go for long walks, indulge in hot baths, Question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, Just let go, Just be.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

The scolding voice is her own, so abrasive and quick, yet so powerless to move her.

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted.

What are you not doing today that you were doing when I first met you?

In times such as these, life often begs us to seek answers when in reality there are only questions available.

Everything went great right up to the explosion.

All that running and getting nowhere, he thought. Story of my life.

All darkness vanished, when I saw the Lamp within my heart.

But love was strange. It distorted your perspective and played havoc with your logic.

I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me. Give birth to me."

Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel.

Be appreciative of what's right with your life. In your gratitude is power to make it even better

The wide screen reminds me of a roll of toilet paper.