Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.

It is the city of mirrors, the city of mirages, at once solid and liquid, at once air and stone.

A new dog never replaces an old dog, it merely expands the heart.

As a seasoned insomniac, I knew sometimes the way to beat sleeplessness was to outwit it: to pretend you didn't care about sleeping. Then sometimes sleep became piqued, like a rejected lover, and crept up to try to seduce you.

Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.

The hardest part is believing in yourself at the notebook stage. It is like believing in dreams in the morning.

Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.