The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.

Our suppressing who we are to fit in is exhausting. It kills flow and creativity. It also prevents genuine connection with others.

Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.

I just wasn't one of those girls who dreamt of her wedding day and the birth of her first child.

I have a lot of passion. I have a lot of pride. I think I do get that from my family. But you can be driven and be nice.

My job now is to work hard and learn all I can.

You want your children to be safe. You want your families to be safe. We know that.

a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life.

Money is my God. If you think God will help you then quit your job and see how much he cares.

I worked because I could control it.

Love is willing self-sacrifice for the good of another that does not require reciprocation or that the person being loved is deserving