When I wrote, I felt better, as if I had remade the world all of a piece, the way I wanted it to be, not the way it was.

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

No one is a virgin, because life has screwed us all.

A person has to be strong in life. A person must practice strength, even if they don't feel it.

When a woman's face is wrinkled And her hairs are sprinkled, With gray, Lackaday! Aside she's cast, No one respect will pay; Remember, Lasses, remember. And while the sun shines make hay: You must not expect in December, The flowers you gathered in May.

Doing good doesn't always make you feel good. I don't care what they tell you in church.

Sometimes it take courage to leave.