Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be.

I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.

Art isn't a product. It's an experience

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

the only thing left to do is love

If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead.

How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.

Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.

When you stand outside, you look around and find that the people you're with live on the fringes.

Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.

The hippy movement was a failure.

It might seem paradoxical given my profession, but I'm not someone who likes to be in the limelight.

What greater wealth is there than to own your life and to spend it on growing? Every living thing must grow. It can't stand still. It must grow or perish.

In my experience, we don't make thoughts appear, they just appear. One day, I noticed that their appearance just wasn't personal. Noticing that really makes it simpler to inquire.

To avoid the trap of the Pharisees, we've got to guard the interconnection between our thoughts and our attitudes.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.

You know, I think I'm the worst player to talk to about statistics.

The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.