So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down.
. . . writing fiction. . . is no job for intellectual cowards.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.
Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map. . . . A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.
The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there. . . and still on your feet.
I notice that if there are some times I've been stressed, because I'm human and stress about things, that affects your kids. So you have to make sure you're a happy mom so they can be happy.
Love emerges at the point of a lacking word, and one offers one's being to fill the lack.
You really need to believe that you are on to something important.
Absolutely eat dessert first. The thing that you want to do the most, do that.