We are stimulated to emotional response, not by works that confirm our sense of the world, but by works that challenge it.

My writing is full of lives I might have led.

Flying fosters fantasies of childhood, of omnipotence, rapid shifts of being, miraculous moments; it stirs our capacity for dreaming.

Truths are the last thing you learn about your family. By the time you learn, you're no longer their child.

...failure is a human condition, not victory over odds; for each Hellen Keller who triumphs, there are tens of millions who fail, mute and deaf and insensate as vegetables tossed upon a vast garbage pile to rot.

Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.

We are the species that clamors to be lied to.