I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.

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.

I must rule with eye and claw — as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides

Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.

Standing up for what's right is a huge burden to bear. It's normal to have some doubt.

You can only be really happy when you become what you really are.

I have always felt comfortable tapping into my inner idiot.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden retriever.

The highest realms of thought are impossible to reach without first attaining an understanding of compassion.