Love is like moonlight or thunder, or rain on a tin roof in the middle of the night; it is one of those things in life that is truly worth knowing.

Words on the page are never prisoners of the page

There is nothing that is more beautiful than everything else in the world.

Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.

I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you.

A small town is nothing but eyes and gaping maw; it pecks at its own like a flock of vicious birds.

No bird in a cage ever speaks. What is there to say? The sky is everywhere, churning above its head, blue and endless, calling out to it. But the caged bird can't answer anything except 'I cannot'.