Dawn rose from the desert and turned the river to wine.

Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?

The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that is cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.

She looked, and a scarlet butterfly flew away from her, away down the length of the tower, and then another, another, an unraveling scarf of butterflies like winged blood.

Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.

We need the expressive arts, the ancient scribes, the storytellers, the priests.

The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.

I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

No one is ever ordinary.

Maidens who stay maidens turn into saints. Old women become sorceresses. Tough jobs, both of these.

You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.

When trauma involves intentional harm, such as in a crime or abuse, trust can totally collapse.

We no longer know whom to trust. This is the greatest damage the NSA has done to the Internet, and will be the hardest to fix.

I guess I strike people as very serious, or very intense.

Why are hemorrhoids called "hemorrhoids" instead of "assteroids

Never give up on an idea simply because it is bad and doesn't work.

Zealots: Wild eyed persons afflicted with incurable certainty about the workings of the world, a certainty that can lead to violence when the world doesn't fit.

I choose to worship not believing in God and government should not thrust a religious idea down my throat.

I don't mind being in studios, and I don't mind being out in nature. They're two different ways of making movies.

Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what it is that you have never lost.