Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

The past is what you take with you.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

The quality of life in our world does not depend on the conflicts that arise, but on our response to them.

Always refuse to be like the others! The more you become similar to the others the more you will be useless because there are already plenty of the others!

In the face of all his handicaps, Jurgis was obliged to make the price of a lodging, and of a drink every hour or two, under penalty of freezing to death.

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

Even if we are spared destruction by war, our lives will have to change if we want to save life from self-destruction.

When you keep it within the walls, it dies. When you take it out where Jesus intended it to be, it happens.

I'm not interested in being one of those comedians who wants to look good and be this 'cool' funny person. I don't care how weird or ugly I look.

The measure of a civilization is how it treats those at the dawn of life, the margins of life and the twilight of life.

Education is civil defence against media fallout.

It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.