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" If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it. "

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" We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth. "

" I'm not infatuated with frivolousness. We're just good friends. "

" A writer needs a life of introspection. "

" The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being. "

" Human folly does not impede the turning of the stars. "

" The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies. "

" I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.' "

" The trickster's function is to break taboos, create mischief, stir things up. In the end, the trickster gives people what they really want, some sort of freedom. "

" There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for. "

" Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. "

" What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. "

" In fiction, when you paint yourself into a corner, you can write a pair of suction cups onto the bottoms of your shoes and walk up the wall and out the skylight and see the sun breaking through the clouds. In nonfiction, you don't have that luxury. "

" We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves. "

" In order to be respected, authority has got to be respectable. "

" To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen. "

" When I go to the shore, I take along the poems of Pablo Neruda. I suppose it's because the poems are simultaneously lush and ripe and kind of lazy, yet throbbing with life - like summer itself. "

" Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is sign on as its accomplice. "

" At the typewriter you find out who you are. "

" John Irving once told me he doesn't start a novel until he knows the last sentence. I said, 'My God, Irving, isn't that like working in a factory?' "

" Education is for growth and fulfillment. "

" A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences. "

" I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured. "

" I have never ever Googled myself; in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things. "

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" Reality is contradictory. And it's paradoxical. "

" Well, I have never, ever Googled myself. "