"I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer."

“It’s dead obvious that creationism isn’t science, or even bad science. It’s nonsense. But I’ve long stated it’s also bad religion, because it doesn’t just take faith, it also takes a phenomenal disregard of reality.”

“ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.”

“It feels like it's the end of the world if you don't do well on your SATs.”

“All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer and rarer, until at last they entirely cease.”

“The Deep South has a completely different history, both good and bad, that is fascinating for everybody. It makes people work together who usually don't, and that sounds like a cliche in so many ways, but it actually happened... and it happened because of a beautiful idea.”

Source : "Genevieve Gorder trades places in 'Town Haul'". Interview with Jay Bobbin, poststar.com. January 21, 2005.

“This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.”

Source : Sarah Manguso (2011). “The Two Kinds of Decay”, p.183, Granta

“WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay.”

Source : 'England's Heroical Epistles' (1597) 'Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, to the Lady Geraldine' l. 123

“I very rarely want to go back and fix things, because I'm much more interested in the next thing, and in taking what I learned from the things that don't work, and applying them to new things that may work.”