the only thing left to do is love

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be.

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.

Art isn't a product. It's an experience

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead.

How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.

Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.

When you stand outside, you look around and find that the people you're with live on the fringes.

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

You cannot win at that which you never start.

The best data we have [concerning the Big Bang] are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psalms, the bible as a whole.

I have boxes full of stuff. Most actors do have a trunk full of stuff, paintings or scripts. It never comes to anything.

Separation of church and state is the big club pulled out to beat back the Christians .

Man is a creative animal, doomed to strive toward a goal, engaged in full-time engineering.

I am not dead yet! I can still call forth a piece of soul and set it down in color, fixed forever.

Many militants of the secular cause look astonishingly like clergy. Worse: like caricatures of clergy.

The ban on the burkini, which is basically a wetsuit, seems particularly ridiculous.

Flint and its lead contaminated water are now the focus of sustained national attention including political attention.