Even things that aren't broken can be fixed.

I think she's brave. I think that nobody has ever believed what she could be capable of. All her life, nobody was listening.

It taught that there are three versions of things: the one I see in my mind, and the one that carries onto the paper, and then what it ultimately becomes.

I see an ocean that’s spilled out of a wineglass, its body clear and sparkling and folding over itself. I see a ribbon of sand.

Vaughn is talking about the heat, and his voice is so excited that it breaks into whispers at times. He loves his madness the way a bird loves the sky.

There's a world out there that nobody has bothered to promise her.

She's been conned, ruined, left for dead, and she's not going to forgive any of it. She will soldier on, if only out of spite.

I think he's beginning to understand, and understanding is a horrible thing.

She’s a commodity in a sea of broken girls.

There is a silence so great that I can hear the ice crystals cracking and falling from eyelashes of girls who will never blink again.

Home?' I say. It's a word that can mean anywhere and nowhere.

The federal government views the Constitution as its enemy.

Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.

I have developed a deep respect for animals. I consider them fellow living creatures with certain rights that should not be violated any more than those of humans.

We walk by faith. We don't stay still, drowning in our misery.

It's much more interesting when you go to different places - make a left turn when nobody expects you to make a left turn, and make a right when nobody expects you to do that.

I never 'plan' a stanza. Words cluster like chromosomes, determining the procedure.

Out of power, Marxism can develop critical intelligence; in power, it quickly becomes stupid.

If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.

Donald Trump doesn't pose a single threat to the greatness of America.

Slogans can be worse than swords if they are only put in the right mouths.