There is a point beyond which conciliation looks like capitulation. I do not believe I passed that point, but others have thought otherwise.

Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.

We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.

A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.