You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

Words save our lives, sometimes.

They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.

Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.

Remember: to succeed beyond your wildest dreams you need some pretty wild dreams to begin with.

The past is weird. I mean, does it really exist ? It feels like it exists, but where is it ? And if it did exists, but doesn’t now, then where did it go ?

After all, God is God because he remembers.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Over time, the repetition, Donald Trump's lies about election rigging, have become a form of background noise, more of the same. And this is a propaganda technique, whether Trump knows it or not.

I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future.

Lord, please give me big ears and a thoughtful mind. Teach me to ask well and see it through other’s eyes.

The main thing about the word jazz, is that it's very limiting to what people are doing.

Their happiness was in each others keeping, and both were unafraid.

The wisdom and compassion a woman can intuitively experience in childbirth can make her a source of healing and understanding for other women.