For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.

You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.

If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you read, you also learn to do this. When you write, you deal with things.

I was going to be a memory when I grew up.

I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.

I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.

You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you write a poem. When you write a novel.

Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something.

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.

I pronounce ye married, laird and lady. No’ ’til death will ye part. And now, Toran, ” he added with a wink, “ye may kiss the bride.

Honk if you love Jesus, text while driving if you want to meet up.

Boston's freeway system is insane. It was clearly designed by a person who had spent his childhood crashing toy trains.

The Soviet Union was an exception, but even there chess players were not rich. Only Fischer changed that.

Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.

I always wanted to be a photographer. I was fascinated with the materials, but I never dreamed I would be having this much fun. I imagined something much less elusive, much more mundane.

Mr. Speaker, less than 10 percent of our Nation's children walk or ride their bicycles to school, and too many schools continue to invite fast-food vendors into their cafeterias.

Sure, go ahead, simulate life, using only ink and paper.

Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.

If your ride through life is not as smooth as you would like it to be, blaming the road may not be the answer.