Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.

I wouldn't call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I'd feel like the Tin Man in 'The Wizard of Oz.

To be known so well by someone is an unimaginable gift. But to be imagined so well by someone is even better.

Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness.

Stella Duffy is a writer who never lets you down.

Do you come to art to be comforted, or do you come to art to be re-skinned?

We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

Short stories consume you faster. They're connected to brevity. With the short story, you are up against mortality. I know how tough they are as a form, but they're also a total joy.

A good argument, like a good dialogue, is always a proof of life, but I'd much rather go and read a book.

Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.

They say Elvis is dead. I say, no, you're looking at him. Elvis isn't dead; he just changed color.

She's got electric boots, a mohair suit, you know I read it in a magazine.

Nature is what we know - Yet have not art to say - So impotent our wisdom is To her simplicity.

Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it.

Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.

Challenge serves beautifully to introduce you to your best - and most brilliant - self.

Very few politicians in Washington really represent the interests of many people.

The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.