I can't write what I don't believe in.

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure

Beauty is a hard thing. Beauty is a mean story. Beauty is slender girls who die young, fine-featured delicate creatures about whom men write poems. Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time. And I loved her for that.

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different. Men eat themselves up believing they have to be the thing they have been made. Children go crazy. Really, even children go crazy, believing the shape of the life they must live is as small and mean and broken as they are told.

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.