i'm going mad, i told myself. let me not be mad.

...falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.

come back, come back to me

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

I've never had a moment's doubt. I love you. I believe in you completely. You are my dearest one. My reason for life.

A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

When its gone, you'll know what a gift love was. you'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

I believe the novella is the perfect form of prose fiction. It is the beautiful daughter of a rambling, bloated ill-shaven giant (but a giant who's a genius on his best days).

I'm holding back, delaying the information. I'm lingering in the prior moment because it was a time when other outcomes were still possible.

Observing human variety can give pleasure, but so too can human sameness.

Vivienne Westwood really inspires me. I love her punk ethos.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

The death of rock was not a natural death. Rock did not die of old age. It was murdered.

The Christian community continues to exist because the conclusions of the critical study of the Bible are largely withheld from them.

I don't see the direct correlation between my personal life and the novel I'm writing until I'm at the end of the novel or very close to it.

Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.

Pain never really goes away; you just elevate and get used to it by growing stronger.

Sanity is all that stands between good and evil.

The only goal is the decency of means.

A poem is a verbal artifact which must be as skillfully and solidly constructed as a table or a motorcycle.