Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.

What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.

The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.

Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked for you. It will be our covenant.

I don't believe that there is any true friendship without a bond of honor, and the honor in friendship is the respect you give the other that she also gives you.

my life has been saved over and over again by picking up a book in which someone captured the whole experience of being despised and not dying.