Laughter nibbled at my lips like tiny fish in warm water.

Perhaps the most important thing we can ever do in our lives is find a way to keep the wild-both the wild inside and the wild outside us-and tap into it.

It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while.

Anger is its own excuse and its own reward.

Didn't I say I'd always be your same stars? If you get to missing me, just look up.

I have a theory that Southern madhouses are full of gifted women who were stifled.

I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.