It is strangely wonderful to feel the lack of something instead of believing that it was never there in the first place.

...There were no measures that truly protected against disaster you simply held on to what mattered and hoped that you found your way to the other side.

The simplest things are the hardest to understand.

Was this how trauma worked? she wondered. Those closest to it remained dumbfounded by the fact that those who weren't present could derive meaning from it?

Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into a tree and you walk away from it.

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

I never thought being famous would be wonderful, but my limited exposure to celebrity has shown me the dark side big-time.

I think Elvis is the sexiest man to ever walk the earth, I love him.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.

Groundbreaking innovators generate and execute far more ideas.

To talk about realizing the Self is discontinuous because there is nothing to realize but the Self. There is nothing but realization.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see more clearly a second time.

I'm happy, certainly, given the times we're living in, to be doing OK, and to not be worrying about money, and to be producing something I enjoy.

I begin to perceive that I am a woman. What that is, heaven knows... the philosophy is yet to be written, there is a world to be explored.