Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.
Learning to love back is the hardest part of being alive.
by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier.
Good writing is about telling the truth.
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
Some people wanted to get rich or famous, but my friends and I wanted to get real. We wanted to get deep. (Also, I suppose, we wanted to get laid.)