Why is the measure of love loss?

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?

...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.

Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.

Six books… my mother didn’t want books falling into my hands. It never occurred to her that I fell into the books – that I put myself inside them for safe keeping.

Sometimes you have to live in precarious and temporary places. Unsuitable places. Wrong places. Sometimes the safe place won't help you.

Where you are born--what you are born into, the place, the history of the place, how that history mates with your own-- stamps who you are, whatever the pundits of globalisation have to say.

Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.

Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.

To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available becomes preferable!

Nothing can dim the light which shines from within.

I always like Madonna; any Madonna song is good for me.

This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime

It is this trick of capitalism, of subjecting labor to competition, while lifted wholly above it by class law itself, that is objectionable.

Science-fiction fans are the most loyal fans in the world. It's true. They'll watch things that you actually should give them their money back for

From 8,000 miles away... I would not judge a fellow soldier from a friendly nation and how they are employing their resources.

It's the heart that really matters in the end.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructive tendencies quickly.