You’re a mystery the way a sacrament is a mystery.

First time my master’s in English literature ever proved useful.

What if the drive to survive was a form of faith, a form of prayer?

But Marchent, most journalists can’t be trusted. You do know that, don’t you?

Writers had a way of redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

Is there any one of us who doesn’t want to strike back at all the evil in this world?

The horror was this: the others.

Who could trust language?

In the story of the prince and the frog, there’s always a frog. This story ... it has no frog.

Marryin' is the one thing people seem to get worse at the more they do it. Well, that and bein' alive.

All of us learned how to walk by failing.

Every day I give you my heart. At the end of the year, there are hundreds of hearts, which I will give to you. Heart to heart only for you, and even more hearts - in a heartless time.

There is nothing wrong with the harvest

I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off

All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it.

I don't really consider myself a writer, but I am writing so I guess I'm a writer.

I think it's never mono-causal why you fall in love with something that you want to do.

I spend more time with Gucci [Mane] or Birdman than 300, but all this is just family. Who cares [about] contracts?