It's not the one thing nor the other that leads to madness, but the space in between.

unhappy families are conspiracies of silence. The one who breaks the silence is never forgiven.

The fact is that every atom that we're made of is part of that first explosion of a nuclear star billions of years ago. We're connected to the entire universe.

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.

We live in a world of buy it or leave it. Love does not signify.

I think every work of art is an act of faith, or we wouldn't bother to do it. It is a message in a bottle, a shout in the dark. It's saying, 'I'm here and I believe that you are somewhere and that you will answer if necessary across time, not necessarily in my lifetime.'