“After a certain age, you couldn't even say where you were from. You went someplace, and lived there. And then you went someplace else.”

“The rule is that if they have a weapon and want to take you someplace else, it is so they can kill you slower--Peter”

“Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.”

“Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.”

“Television and newspapers show people's lives at a certain point. But novels tell you what happened after the riot, what happened when everybody went home.”

“The outside lights were on, and it was snowing, and it looked like magic. Like we were somewhere else. Like we were someplace better.”

“Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.”

“Take me someplace where we can be silent together.”

“Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go someplace where you don't know a soul? Sometimes I feel like doing that. I really really want to do it sometimes.”

“The best books come from someplace deep inside…. Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.”