Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head.

Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and talk about it and walk through it than to spend a lifetime being silently poisoned.

I don't think anything is the opposite of love.

Life with most teenagers was like having a low-grade bladder infection. It hurts, but you had to tough it out.

Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.

You have to be a warrior and say, "Maybe it's everyone else's system, but it's not mine." (from her recent interview here, on Goodreads)

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.