Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.

I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment.

Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world is falling apart.

I wrote to explain my own life to myself, stories are the vessels I use to interpret the world to myself.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends.

When I was 5 years old, my mother read me 'Gone With The Wind' at night, before I went to bed. I remember her reading almost all year.