Boredom is why God invented books.

I love to sleep. My astrological sign is the sloth.

Opening a book in the middle of a chapter always made me feel like I was interrupting a group of strangers, wandering unannounced into their villages and apartments and taxis and slums.

Talking to a therapist, I thought, was like taking your clothes off and then taking your skin off, and then having the other person say, "Would you mind opening up your rib cage so that we can start?

Believing in books is a lot like believing in God.

A drowning person doesn't rescue herself.

My mother says that some books are good no matter when you read them, and some are good at a particular moment; they come into your life at just the right time.

I had just wanted to be part of a story; I wanted to be a person who had a story to tell.

Depression is an illness, and no fault of the person who suffers from it

Maybe the things she loved most weren't meant to be permanent. Maybe the fact that they existed was enough.

If you are afraid to fail, your successes will be few, common, and unmemorable.

Saige, Mother is . . .” I briefly close my eyes and swallow, clearing my mouth from saliva. “Mother is dead.

There are too many questions and not enough painkillers in the world to get through them all.

I follow my heart for I can trust it.

I’ll give you my strength if I can have your remission.

All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle!

I think I have the only parents in the world who would not have said something against become an actress.

In my cheapest moments I am apt to think that it is n't my business to be "seeking the spirit," but as much its business to be seeking me.

The essence of statesmanship is not a rigid adherence to the past, but a prudent and probing concern for the future.

The wisest man may be a blind father.