The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.

The eye is always caught by light, but shadows have more to say.

As long as people are going to call you lunatic anyway, why not get the benefit of it? It liberates you from convention.

Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.

From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.

If magic was present, it moved under the skin of the world, beneath the ability of human eyes to catch sight of it.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

Growth and change were viewed as reactions to conditions met

Waking up was a daily cruelty, an affront, and she avoided it by not sleeping.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.

I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

Marketing just got hard.

Who told you I was a musician?

Hire character. Train skill.

In new work, we need to see the shadow, however faint, of previous literary effort.

We stone our prophets, then build monuments to them after they're gone.

Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.