I will go and speak at rotary clubs. I will go and speak at schools. I'm so much in the community, but in a way that I love. It's been such a positive thing.

I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.

I don't really do anything with the Internet except check my email. I have a much higher opinion of humanity because of that.

It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.

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

Time has a funny way of collapsing when you go back to a place you once loved. You find yourself thinking, I was kissed in that building, I climbed up that tree.

I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.