Mothers' bodies are not their own. The happiest ones seem to have forgotten what it is like to want themselves back at all.

Like watches over like, as the saying goes.

Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?

Many things happened in my life, and I thought that they changed me. But in the end, nothing has changed since I was seventeen. If I could keep today’s happiness I wouldn’t worry about tomorrow.

I would fall in love with you if you would beat these people out of me.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.

From a self-conscious standpoint, it's hard to see myself on a screen in a way that isn't just me playing music or doing something silly.

There needs to be nationalist and republican confidence in unionism.

Don't just dream it. Be it!

Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.

I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it's on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I'm supposed to write about.