I either eat too much or starve myself. Sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. Fall in love very hard or hate passionately. I don't know what grey is. I never did.

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

What you burnt, broke, and tore is still in my hands. I am the keeper of fragile things and I have kept of you what is indissoluble.

The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose the heightened moments because they are the moments of revelation.

the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.

Either one fails in one's art or in one's life.

When I am most deeply rooted, I feel the wildest desire to uproot myself.