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

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.

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.

I think we all get too caught up in doing instead of just being sometimes.

I felt tears sting into my eyes, and took a deep swallow of the first champagne I had ever tasted, remembering that I had read somewhere that the monk who invented it said, on first tasting it, 'It is like drinking stars'.

Anger is its own excuse and its own reward.

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