You know, right often, the body is the best thing we’ve got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something!

Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.

Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.

Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.

I'm thinking about the cat dying, Dulcie and her knife against my throat, Mrs Irvin and her St Thomas bone... But never my sister. A brother rarely thinks about his sister.

I have trust issues.”“I know. I’m on a mission to cure you of that.

If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success.

You have to defend your honor. And your family.

Difficult times often bring out the best in people.

I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.

When I was young I trained a lot. I trained my mind, I trained my eyes, trained my thinking, how to help people. And it trained me how to deal with pressure.

Fashion brings out what you are inside. A lot of people think it's got to be blue jeans, a Black coat, three inch heels. But it doesn't have to be like that. I enjoy just going for it

Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.

But what have I, but what have I, my friend, To give you, what can you receive from me? Only the friendship and the sympathy Of one about to reach her journey's end.