The difference between that which is humane and that which is patriotic is a vital difference.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.

You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your eyes in because I was loving the hoof marks on your cheeks.

It is sheer good fortune to miss somebody long before they leave you.

Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

Sometimes what I write on the page frightens me, so I feel free when I write, but I don't feel safe.