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She was starved hurting limbs.

Things are always less important once you're assured of having them.

Of course there's something there; unfortunately, there's always something 'there.' Something you will one day be sorry you saw.

For two people to satisfy everything each needs for their entire lives is a tall order. Some couples may be equipped to do this. Some are not.

I had really wanted adventure. At the time that I ran away, lots of kids ran away from home. It was something of a social phenomenon.

Stories are the rich, unseen underlayer of the most ordinary moments.

Today I'm Yours. It was a crude and romantic song. But human feeling is crude and romantic.

Writing requires an intense inner focus, and sometimes you need to express outward, physically or socially.

I have to have dinner with my mother at nine and after that I won't be fit for human society.

My ambition was to live like music.

I didn't start thinking about what I wanted to do professionally until I was 17. I was a hippie, but I did write.

The art of integrating the ego and the impulse for empathy in a dynamic call and response.

I remember the time I said, 'I don't think you love yourself. You need to learn to love yourself.'

At times she had thought that this was the only kind of connection you could have with people - intense, inexplicable and ultimately incomplete.

I didn't want to keep forcing myself to grind out book after book.

I remember back in the '90s, I used to feel criticized by women for not having children. Like there must be something wrong with me.

It's true that your environment influences how you write.

Anne Frank's diary made a very big impression on me at age 12 or so.

Three writers together would be a nightmare of obstreperous self-consciousness.

The only way to know whats possible is to venture past impossible.

The first person to blow up my fashion consciousness was a 14-year-old girl named Sandrine. She was the most beautiful human I had ever seen.

He longed for a dim-eyed little slut with a big, bright mouth and black vinyl underwear.

He was beginning to see her as a locked garden that he could sneak into and sit in for days, tearing the heads off the flowers.

Somebody once said to me, 'If you want to be understood, don't write fiction.'

I believe that the truest parts of people can be buried, and for many different reasons.

You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.

I think once you write fiction, you put it out, and it can be interpreted in a variety of ways, some of which are going to be shocking to the writer.

Sometimes I decide I don't want to write because it isn't the thing for me to be doing right then, and I go do something else.

It's nothing serious," he said. "It's just an obsession.

I didn't like horses when I was a kid.

What are you thinking? She asks.
-That you are beautiful. That not everyone could see it. I almost became the kind of person who could not.

There are no pure people.

I think people try to make the most of their time on Earth and also to 'fix' their time on Earth.

Everybody wanted to be depressed. But your depression was supposed to be funny, too, and that was what had proved too much for Dolores.

Feel like the bright past is coming through the gray present and I want to look at it one more time.

The hurts of childhood that must be avenged: so small and so huge.

When looking out the window and watching the water becomes a drama, then literally everything is a drama.

Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.

I found the world extraordinarily strange, having first left home at 15.

I had a strong conviction that there was something out there in the world that was wonderful.

I wasn't ever anybody who had a political thing against marriage, but I just thought, 'Why would I want to do that?'

My first and strongest memories about perfume come from childhood, from my mother, and they are a complex blend of her private and public selves.

I feel I'm often misunderstood by critics. People project a lot or exaggerate the subjective fragility simply because it's frightening to them.

Valiantly, he tried to bring his soul to life in the small thing through which it had to live, and it was crushed, again and again.

I don't know if I can say exactly what I seek in books, but one of them would be to deepen and expand my understanding of the world.

I think it actually started in my late thirties. I started changing psychologically, and it was difficult to translate that into my writing.

I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.