What passes for news is just morbid speculation or cartoonish screaming, followed by diaper commercials.

The beginning of the end can feel a lot like the middle when you are living in it.

When you're a kid, it's hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.

Fiction helps me to reconnect with the true, deep weirdness inherent in everyday reality, in our dealings with one another, in just being alive.

It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.

My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

It is a special kind of homelessness to be evicted from your dreams.

Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.

There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.

You small mortals don't realize the power of your stories.

If you find a problem, don’t complain about it. To find the solution, be curious and wise.

There are more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy.

Men was formed for society, and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it.

Blessed are those who are so naive that they do not know what they cannot do.

It doesn't matter where the ball is or what the situation is. I can look around to the guys on my left and right, and know that they are ready to go.

I'm a method actor as well as a method singer.

It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who like themselves - I don't want to see them!

I don't have to be what you want me to be.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.