Things haven't always been this bad. Therefore, they won't always be this bad.

If fate doesn't make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

You may say you're "anti-status, " but if you filled a room with people who said that, they would soon form a status hierarchy based on how anti-status each person claims to be.

It would be so nice to write songs that end up being timeless.

Stories that are real, that create you, rather than be created by you, are powerful.

Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.

My parents taught me: Do not rely on a man. Not rely on it that you get married and it pays for you. That's what I figured. I have always paid my own bills.

It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn't know.

Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving into life from death, without denying the devastation that came before.

A name is so important. A surname connects you to your past, to your family. Even a given name has meaning - why did your parents pick that particular one?

If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.