When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could ….

You can forget who you are if you're alone too much..

He's lost something, some illusion I used to think was necessary to him. He's come to realize he too is human. Or is this a performance, for my benef….

I feel like cotton candy: sugar and air. Squeeze me and I’d turn into a small sickly damp wad of weeping pinky-red..

Reading ... changes you. You aren't the same person after you've read a particular book as you were before, and you will read the next book, unless b….

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge..

You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of journalism y….

Walking along past the store windows, into which she peers with her usual eagerness, her usual sense that maybe, today, she will discover behind them….

Some of the old diseases that we think are gone - case in point, measles - are back, now that somebody has spread around, in a very wicked way, the i….

You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll yo….

I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's for aspirin and waddle al….

I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting..

All I can hope for is a reconstruction: the way love feels is always only approximate..

Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, ….

We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others only an addiction..

After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is..

There is so much going on all over the world that it's impossible for one person to keep up. And I can't..

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word..

Religions in general have to rediscover their roots. In Hinduism and the Koran, animals are described as equals. If you walk into a cathedral and loo….

There is no fool like an educated fool..

It's impossible to say a thing exactly the way it was, because of what you say can never be exact, you always have to leave something out, there are ….