Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.

You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.

You should not have assault rifles in your home.

I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.

You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend. You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer. You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person. You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.

I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.