Right and wrong were shades of meaning, not sides of a coin.

It is easy to take away the world that we think is so permanent and reliable.

Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission bundle sale ever after - lightly because you realize you never paid nothing for it, cherishing because you know you won't ever come by such a bargain again.

Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway--in secret.

The only time I see the truth is when I cross my eyes.