Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

Scars are stories, history written on the body

For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity.

The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on water, on purity.

My days are as long as despair can make them.

I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.

Don’t portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

Sometimes there's a sort of tear in the veil, and there are people who live in more than one dimension.

There aren't many people in our history who have so completely surrendered themselves to a mission that they would give up their lives for it.

We're taught to expect unconditional love from our parents, but I think it is more the gift our children give us. It's they who love us helplessly, no matter what or who we are.

The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.

The love I knew was from books..

ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports.

If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act you have neglected much and most of all yourself.

Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

Readers want what is important to be clearly laid out; they will not read what is too troublesome.

[My mother] was busy being a homemaker and was not an activist by any means.

Why is life so difficult for some people and not for others? Why do some people have to struggle so much?

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.

Death cannot kill that which does not die.