I still feel conflicted because I don't always get to spend as much time with my daughter as I'd like, given my work.

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

The glory of victory softens our view of past frailties.

If you force me to pay a debt that is not mine, let me thank you in the afterlife

To forget the elderly is to ignore the wisdom of the years.

It is in numberless instances happier to have a false opinion which we believe true, than a true one of which we doubt.

If I worked 8 months on a deal and it didn't go through - I'd punch a wall, get depressed and change careers.

It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place.

Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.

I always have to be writing.

The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed.