You are a writer when your overwhelming need to tell a story outweighs your fear of ridicule.

As a writer, self-doubt is useless. Get rid of it, rip it out like a weed and compost it.

Bringing you closer to the fragile edge of living is the job of a writer.

Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.

I am done looking for love where it doesn’t exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.

Death, of course, should not be feared, but awaited with certain wonder. To die was to step across a threshold into a new world, unknown, unimaginable.

It is my firm belief that all successful languages are grown and not merely designed from first principles

She had a plan. Even if it was a little insane.

I feel like I'm back in business now, and I'm managing pretty well as a single mum. I've proved to myself I can do it. You come out the other end and think, 'Wow, I'm pretty good at this!'

I've always been attracted to temporary families.

Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of.

We can let the energy of love flow instead of placing it in a jar and leaving it aside.

An album takes at least a year or 8 months and I think that's too long for your fans to wait to hear you again.