My grandmother was a psychiatrist and had shelves full of medical books - I was constantly sneaking looks at some of those. I was fascinated by the descriptions of illnesses and diseases.

Sometimes what a person needs most is to be forgiven.

If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?

What if things happened to you—special, magic things—because you’d been preparing for them?

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.

...they were exactly what the other needed; the missing piece that made everything else magically click into place.

All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes.

Ain't no point worrying about what's been or what's gonna be. You just gotta do your best right now. And trust everyone else is doing the same.

And deep down, she felt like maybe she didn't deserve it-that she belonged with the petty thieves and guys who drank Pabst Blue Ribbon for breakfast

She closed her eyes. Said the four most comforting words she knew: "Once upon a time." An incantation.

I love you for a great many reasons and despite a great many others.

I will go back to riding one day - when I have kids. I have such amazing childhood memories of being on horseback.

Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.

Brooklyn has become a brand, and it represents something, and there is this tension between the old and new world.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

I am not a human being, I am dynamite.

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

I think the most important thing is to start with something that fits perfectly. Don't worry about having it in five colors.

When you walk alone, when everybody is against you, if you are sure with your ideas, walk strongly and proudly as if there is an army of angels by your side!

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.