Until we learn to stop dying Tom, we have to live with the consequences. There's no room for the dead unless you treat them as ornamental.

That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place.

Why doesn't she want me? The sun is rising now, but it is 93,000,000 miles away and I can't get warm... She won't be cold. She has the sun inside her.

Humans have given away all their power to a they. You aren't able to fight the system because without the system none of you can survive.

You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? 'I love you' is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I, yet when you say it and when I say it we speak like savages who have found three words and worship them.

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map.