It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.

Happiness compresses time, makes it dense and bright, pocketsized.

Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.

It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.

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

Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.