Maybe people are more like the earth than we know. Maybe they have fault lines that sooner or later are going to split open under pressure.

It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.

Good enough is good enough. Perfect will make you a big fat mess every time.

Life is short but it is wide. This too shall pass.

I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.

How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be.

I value humor, kindness, and the ability to tell a good story far more than money, status, or the kind of car someone drives.

I want to lay up like that, to float unstructured, without ambition or anxiety. I want to inhabit my life like a porch.

I never claimed to be a low-maintenance gal, but when I'm writing, it's particularly challenging. I lose things constantly: my watch, my glasses, my papers, my mind.

A scent that disturbs me and delights me. It smells like ripe pears, vetiver, a bit of violet and something else- something spicy almost biting and exotic.

You know how some people, when they're together, they somehow make you feel more hopeful? Make you feel like the world is not the insane place it really is?

You will always end up in frustration whenever you try to produce outside your purpose.

Is that Disney magic of pixie magic?" I kid... "It is life magic".

Kiddo, you and me don't do so well in situations we can't control.''Don't think I care for that.

Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it.

Where we are in politics is running down whatever doesn't agree with you.

Every time I await a model, even when I am most pressed to time, I am overjoyed when the time comes and I tremble when I hear the key turn in the door.

One to 2 percent of the population becomes addicted gamblers

I'm 37, please don't make me go to Brooklyn.

White people cannot destroy me like they have other big ministers of Elijah Mohammed in the past by telling us oh, you speak good, you should be the leader.

Which is now a more hopeful statement than Swift intended it to be.