Home, bed, sleep, mother--who knew more beautiful words than these?

There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.

Write because you love the art and the discipline, not because you're looking to sell something.

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.

Keeping people safe is a story we tell ourselves.

I am the person who is appropriating stories that are not mine and turning them into a book.

When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.