You think that would have changed things? The answer is of course, and for a while, and never.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

I improvise therefore I exist!

And I began to suspect that the ultimate sacrifice isn't death after all

From a book you can learn the theory but it takes practise to learn how to live life.

We begin to die as soon as we are born and the end is linked to the beginning.

He was like a song I'd heard once in fragments but had been singing in my mind ever since.

I'm a light comedienne, that's really where I live the most often.

For members who have only ever been in government, the negativity and aggressiveness of the opposition is easy to caricature.

I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories, our imaginations, our dreams.

I consciously focus on my blessings and remember what has gotten me through my past struggles: my faith and the belief that everything happens for a reason.

So we have to be careful because if you don't protect your culture you won't have it for very long.