If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

I just really love people a lot. I really love them.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

Listen, God loves everything you love, and a mess of stuff you don't.

I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.