Writing is a kind of free fall that you then go back and edit and shape.

Know something, sugar? Stories only happen to people who can tell them.

You have a different kind of tenderness for everybody you know.

Beware of using up your last forty years in being the curator of your first fifty.

There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.

Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.

You know, right often, the body is the best thing we’ve got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something!

The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.

The biggest mistake that I made was not anticipating the rise of the social networking phenomenon.

The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

The people who are going into music who hunger, they're going into pop music. There are some badass women who are ambitious and hungry and brave, and they're in pop.

I am not the type of person who believes everything she reads, but I like to look at photos and see what people are wearing.

If there are questions then, of course, there are answers, but the final answer makes the questions seem absurd.

Sisters share the scent and smells... the feel of a common childhood.

I think it is only in hindsight that you can determine whether something is a mistake or not.

The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self.

It is a strange world," I murmered, more to myself than to the native soul. "The strangest," he agreed.