I dont make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: everything. Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!

Nobody deserves death, yet everybody gets it.

I recognized him then; that is, I finally comprehended what I had known but had never been able to formulate: he had always been complete. He had finished the work of becoming himself, long before any of us could even imagine such a feat was possible.

It's difficult for me to understand how it was possible to live under the Bush regime for eight years and then just roll over and do other things.

The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.

I'm bright, but there are lots of bright writers and people everywhere. In no way, at no point do I think I'm better than them.

I dont make notes for myself because I either lose them or they make no sense to me at all. I once found a piece of paper with the note: everything. Apparently I made a note to myself not to forget everything!