Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness, a conundrum that she couldn’t even begin to solve.

The beginning is the word and the end is silence. And in between are all the stories.

As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some that only exist in the imagination, like the bluebirds that fly over the rainbow.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

The past is what you take with you.

Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

I spent four years doing a doctorate in postmodern American literature. I can recognize it when I see it.

I feel as if I’m waiting for something dreadful to happen, and then I realize it already has.

To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid - one must also be polite.

Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

A person without regrets is called a corpse.

I can't protect you without holding a sword. I can't embrace you while holding a sword.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.

Ever notice, the ones who deny the holocaust are usually the same ones who want to repeat it?

He who goes oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.

I don't want to die. But I want to be dead.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.