Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.

One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory of evil is not certain.

Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of a human life, neither simply linear nor wholly disjunctive nor endlessly bifurcating, but rather this bouncey-castle sequence of bumpings-into and tumblings-apart.

Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

Everything has shape, if you look for it. There is no escape from form.

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'