It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

...Realization is born from error...

Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

I would love to make some kind of film about the witches and the Inquisitions. That would be really fun because I don't think their stories have been told enough.

I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.

Obviously, I'm suffering from lack of sleep, but it truly is a blessing to be a mother.

Is there anything more attractive than a woman in high heels and low self esteem?

Memory itself is an internal rumour.

Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.

I moved to Charlotte at a young age, and despite how much I like Charlotte, I've always had a fascination with my hometown.

As you get older, don't slow down. Speed up. There's less time left!