I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end.

the buddhists say there are 149 ways to god. i'm not looking for god, only for myself, and that is far more complicated.

My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.

Memoir ... satisfies our need for gossip and intimacy, for testimony and confessional, and in this world of spin, offers a truthful account of what it means to succeed or fail, to love and lose, to break your heart and mend it again.

You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.

I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With Your Own Sex.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.