You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.

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

Sometimes not having any idea where we’re going works out better than we could possibly have imagined.

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

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.

It's always better to have too much to read than not enough.

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.