“She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.”

“Thats life for you. All the happiness you gather to yourself, it will sweep away like its nothing. If you ask me I dont think there are any such things as curses. I think there is only life. Thats ...”

“You can't regret the life you didn't lead.”

“Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.”

“In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.”

“If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.”

“Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.”

“The case for the humanities is not hard to make, though it can be difficult--to such an extent have we been marginalized, so long have we acceded to that marginalization--not to sound either defens...”

“I don't understand how I can always want to sleep, hate waking up, and yet be afraid of death.”

“Feminism is an endeavor to change something very old, widespread, and deeply rooted in many, perhaps most, cultures around the world, innumerable institutions, and most households on Earthand in ou...”

“And once you've been to this Center, this Truth, you'll know your way everywhere. You are never lost again.”

“The Queen's Pride was his ship, and he loved her. (That was the way his sentences always went: It is raining today and I love you. My cold is better and I love you. Say hello to Horse and I love yo...”

“What Joab did not and could not know was that it was ego, and the ego of a king is just like the ego of anyone else. It is a social infection, entering each person as a psychological virus that is ...”