You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.

You don't have to judge the whole world by your own standards. Not everybody is like you, you know.

Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.

two people can sleep in the same bed and still be alone when they close their eyes

Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard.

George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.

I'm not afraid to die. What I'm afraid of is having reality get the better of me, of having reality leave me behind.