Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.

What should I do about the wild and the tame? The wild heart that wants to be free, and the tame heart that wants to come home.

I think heterosexuality and homosexuality are a kind of psychosis, and the truth is somewhere in the middle.

The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so strong that the present is crushed by it. We lie helpless in the force of patterns inherited and patterns re-enacted by our own behavior. The burden is intolerable.

As a writer, if you're prepared to work from your own wound, you're allowing people into the most vulnerable parts of yourself.

I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.

Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.