Maybe this is who I really am.Not a loner, exactly.But someone who can be alone.

You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.

Michigan, with its delicious American name. How lucky one must be to live there.

In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is not terribly great.

Every moment I have ever experienced as a child is as important as every moment I am experiencing now, or will experience ever. I guess what I'm saying is that not everybody should have children.

I wonder what children whose parents have money think about in their spare time.

As every so-called creative spirit soon learns, the rest of the world doesn't particularly give a damn.

She folds the pages of the books she reads when she wants to remember something important. Her favorite books are accordions, testaments to an endless search for meaning.

I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.

I am a kind of joke, but the question is: which kind? My job is to keep everyone guessing.

After all, this is America, and you can swap out the parts of yourself that don't work. You can rebuild yourself piece by piece.

At the bottom of every dilemma, he says, is fear, and the brain always prefers the bird in the hand to venturing into the bush, even if you are clutching a scrawny black crow.

Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.

Most of my important lessons about life have come from recognizing how others from a different culture view things.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.

Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.

I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great.

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

The Author is a play about responsibility, how active we are as spectators and how responsible we are for what we choose to look at.