Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.
Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
Isolation offered its own form of companionship
Relationships do not preclude issues of morality.
A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.
A writer has to true to him or herself. Period. That’s it!
One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist.
War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war.
She has the gift of accepting her life.
Do what I will never do.
You remind me of everything that followed.
Sexy means loving someone you donot know.
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.
Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying 'Listen to me'.
Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.
A bicultural upbringing is a rich but imperfect thing
That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.
Throughout life, from childhood, from school until we die, we are taught to compare ourselves with another; yet when I compare myself with another I am destroying myself.