The life we receive is not always what we choose.
In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.
I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left.
Whenever I'm with my mother, I feel as though I have to spend the whole time avoiding land mines.
I started a second novel seven times and I had to throw them away.
Libraries are the pride of the city.