You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

No matter how much we love a book, the experience of reading it isn't complete until we can give it to someone who will love it as much as we do

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

You are always someones favorite unfolding story

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

I can write for any magazine now, in any voice. I can do it in two hours, I could do it in my sleep, it's like writing a grocery list.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

Saying both sides participated in violence doesn't mean both sides are equally ideologically wrong, you know.

If you really have talent, you know, you'll go on writing - whatever people say to you.

The burden is equal to the horse's strength.

I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings

Doctors are busy playing God when so few of us have the qualifications. And besides, the job is taken.

If there is a god, the only genuine friend he has is an atheist. He does not blame him for anything.

When John (Giles) was manager of Ireland, much as he loved me, he still dropped me.

Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action.

Of course, the humans in Haiti have hope. They hope to leave.

Most writers have very little that's important or valuable to offer; most of them are just repeating each other.