I could not persuade her that a place does not merely exist, that it has to be invented in one's imagination.

Nobody knows, nobody can ever know, not even in memory, because there are moments in time that are not knowable.

People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection.

I was already well schooled in looking away, the jungle-craft of gentility.

That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.

Need is not transitive, one may need without oneself being needed.

Being an entrepreneur cannot be defined by your successes until it has been built by your failures.

To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".

Sadness and gladness succeed each other.

I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.

I like to accept it all, the negative and the positive.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

Any time you have poverty, joblessness, sub-par public schools, and a lack of opportunity, you're going to have a high rate of crime.

I like fictional stories - like, things that never happened but the seed of it starts as real.

You have the power. You are the magic wand.