I'm interested in what the virtues of all those things are, especially for the kind of person who's made their own world that revolves around them, like writers do. It seems especially precious.

But, like ivy, we grow where there is room for us.

Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk forward into friendship. They can't see the tiny outstretched hands all around them, everywhere, like leaves on trees.

That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

I laughed and said, Life is easy. What I meant was, Life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again.

Don't wait to be sure. Move, move, move.

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

... we had once called out hello into the cauldron of the world and then run away before anyone could respond.

Inelegantly, and without my consent, time passed.

I cried in English, I cried in french, I cried in all the languages, because tears are the same all around the world.

As if the jealousy of a lover could ever compete with the ferocity of a mother.

The capacity to surmount failure without being discouraged is the chief asset of every person who attains outstanding success in any calling.

It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.

When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial.

A learned woman is thought to be a comet that bodes mischief whenever it appears.

Birth into this life was the death of the embryo life that preceded; and the death of this will be birth into some new mode of being.

I love the fact that I'm bad at [things], you know what I'm saying? I'm forever the 35-year-old 5-year-old. I'm forever the 5-year-old of something.

For me, the most difficult piece is the one I'm about to make.

Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.