Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

It is best to act with confidence, no matter how little right you have to it.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat.

Since when do you have to agree with people to defend them from injustice?

People change and forget to tell each other.

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.

Nobody knows what you want except you, and no one will be as sorry as you if you don't get it.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.

For every man who lives without freedom, the rest of us must face the guilt.

It comes a point in which you don't know if you write books or the books write you

Anxiety is the price tag on human freedom

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

Being exhausted is all part of the fun. I'm cool with it. I'm not going to wish that it would slow down.

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.

A woman's education consists of two lessons: never leave the house without stocking, never go out without a hat.

Seriously, I think what all the puzzling over parenthood I had to do to write [a novel] ROOM taught me is that children can thrive in a remarkable range of situations.

I'm a firm believer in the hustle game.

Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.