Books arent written on whim or promises. Books are written on years turned inside out by ideas that never let go until you get them in print, and even then writings a last resort, a desperate ransom you pay to get your life back.

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

The first prerequisite of an advanced being is a sense of humor.

I'm a writer as rarely as possible, when forced by an idea too lovely to let die unwritten

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

Your harshest truths are dreams, and your gentlest dreams are true.

You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way".