The Bible is one, Old and New, in my particular tradition.
As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.
The most haunting thing was not that he didn't love her anymore. She could have accepted that eventually. The most haunting thing was that he did. He loved her from afar. He loved her in a way that was preserved in time, that couldn't be sullied. And she tended it in her careful, curatorial way.
Everyone is fragile. Everything beautiful is fragile
Someday when you're twenty, maybe, I'll see you again. You'll be this hot soccer star at some great school, with a million guys more interesting than I am chasing you down. And you know what? I'll see you and I'll pray you want me still.
She wanted him to notice her so much.
At the worst possible moment, the most painful, darkest moment when you can't take it anymore and you are afraid, that is when a feeling of peace and comfort will come over you, and it's like nothing you've ever felt.
I feel like I am beginning to be a part of a musical community, but I wouldn't say I'm a country artist because I wouldn't want to invalidate anybody else or to even begin to be so preposterous as to think I can just skate into town and get some fans.
Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. . . . This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.
Communists are frustrated capitalists.
I’d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there