Grief loves the hollow; all it wants is to hear its own echo.

It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.

I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.

There and then, sitting beside her and within the strength of my adoration, I felt invincible.

The three things that help writing the most are living, writing, and reading. In that order.

Nothing is more acceptable than what we are born into.

I am of the firm opinion that no one should tell writers what to do, or what to write, or how to write.

When I first began writing In the Country of Men all I had was the voice of the protagonist. He intrigued me and my desire to want to know him and his world became almost compulsive.

And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.

And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that 'knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest.

Can you become a man without becoming your father?

If someone loves you they'll give you the world free of charge. If the whole world loves you, not even the richest man can compete with that. Love is true power.

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.

You can’t prevent undernourishment so easily, but famines you can stop with half an effort. Then the question was why don’t the governments stop them?

The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England.

The teachers I've learned the most from, didn't think they were teaching me; they just thought we were friends.

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.

Your playing small does not serve the world. Who are you not to be great?

The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

Having grown up in Oklahoma when it was one of the last states which prohibited liquor, I grew up with War On Drugs, where every teenager knew who the bootleggers were