I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

I'd like to have the kind of house someday where a carousel horse wouldn't be out of place in the living room.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

There's a socialist bias to the consensus of the literary world: a '30s mentality that says factory workers are more worthy of our attention.

I like the fact that I'm living in the world rather than in a university.

If it's red, French, costs too much, and tastes like the water that's left in the vase after the flowers have died and rotted, it's probably Burgundy.

Reading a novel is just a much more involving and intimate experience than the act of watching a film. I mean, you literally get inside of a novelist's head, and you invest many hours to do so.

The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.

Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will gather elsewhere.

Guardian angels are always with us.Guardian angels assist us to fulfill our highest purpose in life.

Expect the Unexpected

The hand that punched is the hands that gives compassion

Most people eat as if they were fattening themselves for market.

Mind only comes into apparent existence through the action of perception. Mind appears to exist because it perceives.

I'll never give up my Dior mascara.

Attack each day with an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.

The best fights are the ones you don't have", a wise man once said to me.

Because of empathy, we care more for, and devote far more resources to, someone who is familiar, from our country or our group, than a stranger.