Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up..

Love isn’t a thing, after all, but an endless series of single acts..

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better..

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did..

When people realize they are being listened to, they tell you things..

Some idiotic things are well worth doing..

Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know..

Fear and hope are alike underneath..

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again..

I had a Tourette's period. And obsessive compulsive disorder. Things would get in my brain that I couldn't get out of my brain..

Theres a lot to be said for doing what youre not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what youre supposed to do are more subtle and take longer t….

I'm trying to cause people to be interested in the particulars of their lives because I think that's one thing literature can do for us. It can say t….

It is right that you have to have a tolerance for solitude. But when that solitude bears fruit, you can abandon it. You can be in the company of othe….

I get very involved in the internal logic of sentences..

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks..

Americans don't have saner gun laws because most Americans, including those citizens who puzzle over better angels, don't want saner gun laws..

They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked t….

The pace of life feels morally dangerous to me..

Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come..

Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops - many black, ….

Finally I do like best of all stories whose necessity is in the implied recognition that someplace out there there exists an urgency-a chaos-, an ins….