My childhood was as conventional as you could get.

As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside the reader. That's more than connecting.

Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.

Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world?

If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we weren't sure if we even liked one another anymore.

Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles.

I'm a private person, a shy person. Sometimes, reading for eleven hours straight feels to me like the perfect way to spend a day.

I love Twitter. It's like having a closet full of clever friends that you can visit twice a day, then shove back into the darkness when you're tired of them.

Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources?

Your fashion should reflect your true passion for life.

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.

To those who have separated themselves from the Church, I say, my dear friends, there is yet a place for you here.

There is a shrine in the temple of age, where lie forever embalmed the memories of such as have deserved well of their country and their race.

Laughter destroys any divisions between people.

Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

Well, you didn't design your beard too well, did you?

I constantly find myself changing my mind all the time. One day, I want to do just acting and just that. One day I want to do music and just that.

Pay and the story rolls. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy.