As before, there is a great silence, with no end in sight. The writer surrenders, listening.

Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.

Love is the outlaw's duty.

If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.

The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.

Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.

Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.

Talk between women friends is always therapy.

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

I have way too shady a background to get into politics. I was a crazy kid - I was in bands, and I don't think I'd get very far before people started digging up stuff I didn't want them to see.

That which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.

Practicing yoga during the day is a matter of keeping your eyes on the road and one ear turned toward the infinite.

The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.

But it's hard for a chick to do comedy. It's not as open for them.

Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby.

Life is a beach, and these hoes try'na lay out

Physical beauty is like athletic skill: it peaks young.

Money lending is a horrible profession. If we are to call it otherwise it is lawful plundering.

You kind of live and die by the serve.