"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new."

"The unread story is not a story; it is a sentence, a string of words, until it has been read. The reader is a collaborator."

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."

"We are the species that tells stories."