Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books save lives.

Why do you have to translate and decode things? Just let the image be. It will have a special kind of reality that it won't once it's decoded.

Last night, I had that dream again. I dreamt I had to take a test, in a Dairy Queen, on another planet.

I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.

It's the tradition of American writers getting away in order to see the country - to get a better view.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

When love is gone, there's always justice.