Let's not be afraid of anything that can't really hurt us.

She began to feel like the plastic doll she had been named after, without even a hole where her mouth was supposed to be.

If death is your lover, you don't got to be afraid ever that he will ever leave you

His own voice was older than he was. Ancient, unearthed from some mystical subterranean place...The voice seemed to make his whole body ache. Maybe it made him bleed inside. I wondered if it hurt, if it burned in his throat.

Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.

Everything is an illusion; that is the whole thing about it - illusion, immitation, a mirage. It makes me too sad. Its having like a good dream, you know you are going to wake up.

Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath.