The way love feels is always only approximate. I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I wo….

We do not know how we'd behave. But a lot of people facing fascism didn't become fascists. I don't happen to believe that we are all monsters..

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness..

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it..

Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float..

But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion. She renders herself up, is blotted out; enters t….

In his student days, he used to argue that if a woman has no other course open to her but starvation, prostitution, or throwing herself from a bridge….

Within one's own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would pu….

Jimmy had been full of himself back then, thinks Snowman with indulgence and a little envy. He’d been unhappy too, of course. It went without saying,….

Anything that suffers and dies instead of us is Christ; if they didn't kill birds and fish they would have killed us. The animals die that we may liv….

It's in Macbeth: "The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon." I seldom have occasion to pull it out, but it's ready and waiting!.

The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us..

We have begun to slam doors, and to throw things. I throw my purse, an ashtray, a package of chocolate chips, which breaks on impact. We are picking ….

Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering..

I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That's science fiction; it isn't going t….

But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence d….

Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some..

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being..

I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them..

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong..

I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born..