The love between humans is the thing that nails us to the earth.

Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?

I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent.

I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.

I wanted to eat her pain, take it into me and make it my own.

No one should have to go back to the place where she had once been a girl.

Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about our otherwise dull lives. We were better off when we were together. Together we were a small society of ambition and high ideals. We were tender and patient and kind. We were not like the world at all.