Maybe that was the price of loving someone: you lost your grasp of where they ended and you began.

The universe is math on fire.

First love is amazing and wonderful, but a kind of panic underlies it, a sense of not knowing what you're doing.

And I kind of love it that you want to know everything.

...this is life. Right here in this room, with you, is life.

You don't know what it's like, when your best friend disappears.

Looking for a thousand years is worth it, if in the end you find what you need.

More lies, but maybe lies were better than the truth.

But I feel more real when I'm around her. Like I'm not fading.

The best way to know a city is to eat it.

To touch everyone’s heart, let us all sing a song of peace.

The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

First and foremost I feel I am a child of God ....Today I think that everything matters, but like a nice game of relative importance and value, certainly not absolute like conversion.

I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging.

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it's a woman, she's 'spilling her guts,' and it's not art.

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

Think against your feelings; argue yourself out of the gloom they have spread; look up from your problems to the God of the gospel.

To have a happy ending, choose a happy moment and call it 'the ending'. Honesty is incompatible with the amassing of a large fortune.

Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat!

I'm a history person, and I love the groundedness of that, of being able to go, "Yes! People acted like that."