Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.

When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.

Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.

In our cultural history, all emotions have been more culturally acceptable to women.

They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.