And then she told me she didn’t want someone who needed her in order to be a better guy. She wanted someone who was better by himself, with or without her.
In our world we sleep and eat the image and pray to it and wear it too.
Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.
Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to be outlaw heroes of some underculture but mainly to save themselves, to survive as individuals.
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.
I should be doing that too. I should be out there running and racing. I should be taking care of my body.
Sexual union is a holy moment in which a part of Heaven flows into the Earth.
You're just gonna create somebody who is, I was gonna say, 'toying with his sexuality. ' Pardon the pun.