Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.

The experience of returning to the blank page and having nothing in the drawer was intensely painful. I just thought, I never want that to happen again.

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

When you don't believe in anything except not dying, you don't really believe in anything.

I wanted to look sexy and I felt like I was too skinny so I started working out with a trainer trying to build some muscle because I was like this skinny little scrawny girl.

A reminder (Japan's earthquake and tsunami) how flimsy our sophisticated modern world really is

I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom.

Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.

It is impossible that anything will be well understood or well done that is taken into a reluctant understanding, and executed with a servile hand.

Being satisfied with little, you can gain much. Seeking much you will go astray. The wise heeds this precept. If it could be so with all people!

Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you.