There's something to be said for hunger: at least it lets you know you're still alive..

Lose your temper and you lose the fight..

That is what you have to do before you kill, I thought. You have to create an it, where none was before..

Hope drives us to invent new fixes for old messes, which in turn create ever more dangerous messes. Hope elects the politician with the biggest empty….

I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private ….

If we read books all the time we would be very unhealthy, as we would not get any fresh air, exercise, or contact with nature. Also we would not spen….

About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives..

I stand on the corner, pretending I am a tree..

You're dead, Cordelia.' No I'm not. 'Yes you are. You're dead. Lie down..

God is not the voice in the whirlwind, God is the whirlwind..

When a man is attacked in print, it's usually for saying what he says; when a woman is attacked in print, it's often for being who she is..

The cat jumps up on the bed and tries to get onto my head. It's his way of telling whether or not i'm dead. If i'm not, he wants to be scratched; i….

Either I'm alive or I'm dying, she said to Daniel. Please don't feel you can't tell me. Which is it? Which does it feel like? said Daniel. He patted….

History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people prefer a past in which ….

He considers me also a little fragile because artistic. I need to be cared for, like a potted plant..

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting..

we lived in the gaps between the stories.

I am rather saddened at the end of a book. I think most writers find this. It's like a friend departing on a voyage..

You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out..

One of the reasons [William] Shakespeare is so endlessly fascinating is that you can look at that figure from about 10 different angles: Caliban in S….

Having been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates about the ….