If I was a waitress, I was too tired at the end of the day when I came home to try to write.

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

That is one thing I've learned, that it is possible to really understand things at certain points, and not be able to retain them, to be in utter confusion just a short while later. I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try to call on it, just like a lightbulb cracking off when you throw the switch.

Reading fiction is important. It is a vital means of imagining a life other than our own, which in turn makes us more empathetic beings.

Everybody believes in chance.

She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.

I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.