Imagination is so much harder to face than reality.

The only time I'm pleased with myself is when I'm exhausted and shaking from having written too much.

figures are clear and open, they hold nothing hidden, no secret they will not tell.

Pity is something only weakness wants.

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

Those who have eyes…do not know their happiness.

Pain was good. If I hurt, it meant I wasn't dead.

I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth, and when I talk myself into doing so, I taste only shame. I have an eating disorder.

How you start your day lays out how well you live it.

All I’m saying is that I don’t want to sort of fall in love with fifty different people. I’d rather find one person and fall completely, deeply in over my head.

If we took away the ability to put defibrillators in people in their last years, people would be shouting in the streets.

Guilt is tricky because we confuse it with caring. ... It's the next best thing to being there.

Some men have sighed over the abduction of their wives, but many more have sighed because no one wanted to abduct theirs.

As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I dont let myself get bored. I just go surfing.

Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.