People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.

Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get tired of each other. You don't always know how it's going to happen, but it is always going to happen. So stop trying to make everything permanent, it doesn't work. I want you to go out there and find some nice man you have no intention of spending the rest of your life with. You can be very, very happy with people you aren't going to marry.

If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.

Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.

The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.

Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.