A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

I inhale hope with every breath I take.

Your love for me should be a passionate desire to pray for me daily.

The most hardest thing in life is letting go of the person whom you dearly love.

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.

Christmas always sucked when I was a kid because I believed in Santa Claus. Unfortunately, so did my parents. So I never got anything.

You and I who read and write books have very little effect upon language. We may think about it, write about it, and read about it, but it goes on without us, or in spite of us.

I think there should be better child support laws to make it easier for those single moms to support their children so they don't have to go on welfare.

... an opportunity to allow the bees in one's bonnet to buzz even more noisily than usual.

If you educate women, family size tends to go down.

The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility.