There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

Go for long walks, indulge in hot baths, Question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, Just let go, Just be.

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

The scolding voice is her own, so abrasive and quick, yet so powerless to move her.

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted.

Most women think cheating is 'disgusting' … until they fall for a man that likes them back

Those who have dissected or inspected many [bodies] have at least learnt to doubt

We interrogate the world by making.

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

It feels so exhausting to be so bad at something I loved so much.

You don't build wealth with credit card rewards and airline miles. You can't beat the credit card companies at their own game.

...when I accept Christ as my Savior... I am immediately in a new and living relationship with each of the three persons of the Trinity.

If we allow the destruction of the environment, we can see the terrorists have utterly won, and are destroying the future of our children and grandchildren. We must not let that happen.

Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.

A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.