Teaching writing puts you on the point of a pin in terms of what you want your own writing to be.

I sometimes think that we expect too much resolution in this world.

Early in the phase of being in a female body, there's all this desire that comes at you, a lot of it hostile, a lot of it dangerous, a lot of it ruinous.

I do some messing around with things, not necessarily about me but about place and people and the things around.

I grew up flying over oceans and moving and sailing.

There's a lot of water in everything I've ever written. There's always oceans and pools.

You can sometimes find something good on the other side of doing something very, very painful.

In order to have a real life of any romance, there has to be a level of fantasy.

I don't think you can have an imagination without having fantasy, and you can't have that rich a life without an imagination.

That's what perfect means. You're finished.

I've always wanted to figure out how to do a walking story. I'd never figured out how to do one and have it work or be interesting or have anything that it's about.

Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!

Your success is your responsibility. Take the initiative, do the work, and persist to the end.

A calm despair, without angry convulsions or reproaches directed at heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.

The most important part of any CrossFit workout is posting about it endlessly on social media. How about you just brag about all the kettlebell burpees you did to the other whackos in your cult?

When years from now people look back on today, they will think the same thing they already do but with more reasons for it.

I want to be a figure for prison reform. I think that the criminal justice system is rotten.

Had I not spent so much time doing something that made me so miserable, I would have never learned how to appreciate doing what brings me joy.

Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon.

The man on top of the mountain didn't fall there.