When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.

Saying just the right thing after a considerable, awkward pause is far less effective than saying the wrong thing with perfect timing. I'm telling you.

And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper.

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

The more obsessed one is with getting thin, the more certain it becomes that one will never get there.

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.