... Remember that forgiveness too is a power. To beg for it is a power, and to withold or bestow it is a power, perhaps the greatest.

There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

God is not the voice in the whirlwind, God is the whirlwind.

It isn't chic for women to be drunk. Men drunks are more excusable, more easily absolved, but why? It must be thought they have better reasons.

I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that - you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.

Nevertheless, blood is thicker than water, as anyone knows who has tasted both.

Craziness was considered funny, like all other things that were in reality frightening and profoundly shameful.