Joss's ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and happy solitude quite like a library did.

Because pieces of your heart clearly weigh more when they're sitting shattered at the bottom of your stomach.

Someday, my young friend, you'll find out that girls are actually people too. Just like you and me.

It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.

If you say someone is thrilled, it implies talk of an exciting project. I'm wary of such talk.

Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.

I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether it is in the theatre or in film.

For me, I was the most vulnerable and needed the most in my postpartum experience and got the least. It was just kind of a drop-off. That would be my focus - on the woman, afterwards.

Dying's a boring side effect.

If you're any kind of artist, you make a miraculous journey, and you come back and make some statements in shapes and colors of where you were.

There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.

I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.