It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned.

Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.

There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.

Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.

Memory changes as a person matures.

Without Christ a people may always have the freedom to do, but never the power to complete.

A mind is not profound by itself, just like a tree without a root.

What compels me to write now is the same as all those years ago. It is the love of writing and storytelling, driven by a desire to escape.

We encountered many hardships. With hope, we find the strength to endure.

To ensure that children are protected, the abuse and exploitation of children must be brought to light and those who violate children brought to justice.

Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion.

The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.

You can't just run out and start the car until some cat invents a car.

Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.

Searching all directions with one's awareness, one finds no one dearer than oneself. In the same way, others are fiercely dear to themselves. So one should not hurt others if one loves oneself.