When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

The great thing about a short story is that it doesn't have to trawl through someone's whole life; it can come in glancingly from the side.

The world is always changing brightness and hotness and soundness, I never know how it's going to be the next minute.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you." I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.

Stories are a different kind of true.

I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good.

Anger is so easy to get into and so hard to get out of.

Be honest first with yourself before with others since that changes the world.

Men are often biased in their judgment on account of their sympathy and their interests.

There's moments when I think it's kind of silly and I wish I would've just stayed natural

That's what I spend most of my time doing, breathing a lot. I like air.

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

Code as if the next guy to maintain your code is a homicidal maniac who knows where you live.

It is a base thing for the countenance to be obedient and to regulate and compose itself as the mind commands, and for the mind not to be regulated and composed by itself.

We must regain our vision and hope and move our country forward on an agenda of peace and justice.