We need the skeletons of other stories to understand our own, sometimes.

As a person, I do ascribe to a lot of magical thinking myself.

In the end, fiction is the craft of telling truth through lies.

While writing, writers are living inside a character or characters, and when the book ekes into the world, writers are living inside the reader. That's more than connecting.

Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.

Who, in the midst of passion, is vigilant against illness? Who listens to the reports of recently decimated populations in Spain, India, Bora Bora, when new lips, tongues and poems fill the world?

If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

Depressing thought: my friends were the girls I ate lunch with, all buddies from kindergarten who knew one another so well we weren't sure if we even liked one another anymore.

Sometimes you have to let time carry you past your troubles.

I'm a private person, a shy person. Sometimes, reading for eleven hours straight feels to me like the perfect way to spend a day.

I love Twitter. It's like having a closet full of clever friends that you can visit twice a day, then shove back into the darkness when you're tired of them.

The taste of your life depends on the spices you used to brew it. Add laziness to it and it becomes bitter as the bile

The deeply secretive cannot grasp that protecting your secret too fiercely exposes it.

With everything that's thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work - whatever - basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that.

A society that forgets about art risks loslng its soul.

Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag.

In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.

There are wars and poverty and so on - it's based on fear. You can cure that with your being by not being afraid.

Every run is a great run!

We have to grasp not only the Know-How but also 'Know Why', if we want to master the Toyota Production System.

I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it.