Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

Poetry, I have discovered, is always unexpected and always as faithful and honest as dreams.

Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

Ignorance, arrogance, and racism have bloomed as Superior Knowledge in all too many universities.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.