The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious.

I want to be violated by insight.

We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.

It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.

Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

they say people only hear what they want to hear, but i don't know if that is always true, i've been wanting to hear your heart and it's as silent as the moon.

Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive.

Thinking these things made space and time around her, the way saying 'only June' had when she was a child hoarding summer.

I like to stay home with my family.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

[My mother] was busy being a homemaker and was not an activist by any means.

Sometimes the way you think about someone isn't the way they actually are.

Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.

The laws are with us, and God on our side.

I don't really have a favorite artist - I mean, I really love Drake - but it depends on my mood. I like anything that makes me feel good.