I wish I had more time to write.

Towns change; they grow or diminish, but hometowns remain as we left them.

Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.

Love is the outlaw's duty.

If death is this brilliant slide, this high, fine music felt as pure vibration, this plunging float in wind and silence, it's not so bad.

The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.

Smoke veils the air like souls in drifting suspension, declining the war's insistence everyone move on.

Then he's inside you, and your body remembers, each time, every man, even if you try to forget.

Talk between women friends is always therapy.

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

The whole house seemed to exhale a melancholy breath of emptiness

Be loving to find the love.

Her eyes were olive green―incisive and clear.

If you wake up in Moscow and put on the Science channel, it doesn't feel like an American channel, it feels like their channel. In fact, Discovery is Vladimir Putin's favorite channel.

God is good to all in some ways and to some in all ways.

All racists are irresponsible.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor.

It turns out Superman is weak to Kryptonite and horses.