It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.

With mental illness the trick is to not take your feelings so seriously; you’re zooming in and zooming away from things that go from being too important to being not important at all.

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all.

I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.

We're here to get each other through this thing, whatever it is.

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.

Well, I thought, last night I paid my dues. I faced death. Now I can stay.