She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

She is overtaken by a sensation of unbeing. There is no other word for it.

Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.

How much has spending most of the offseason in prison affected Jamal Lewis' poor start?.

i could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. how could skin be that thin? i was so afraid you might drop and break. i stopped breathing so you wouldn't.

As well expect Nature to answer your human values as to come into your house and sit in a chair.

God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way.

The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.

No single tradition monopolizes the truth. We must glean the best values of all traditions and work together to remove the tensions between traditions in order to give peace a chance.

An industrial system predicated on the delusion of limitless expansion will, in time, consume its own basis of support.

We continue to make more money when snoring than when active.