Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

The thing about light is that it really isn’t yours; it’s what you gather and shine back. And it gets more power from reflectiveness; if you sit still and take it in, it fills your cup, and then you can give it off yourself.

When I was young, I used to be so jealous of other girls that it crippled me.

Over and over I feel as if my characters know who they are, and what happens to them, and where they have been and where they will go, and what they are capable of doing, but they need me to write it down for them because their handwriting is so bad.

My understanding is that you get to choose which of your thoughts to go with.

This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.