Real love moves freely in both directions. Don't waste your time on anything else.

I felt something growing in me that was strong and real.

Writing is such a strangely and radically private act, and yet its purpose is this great sense of connection and community. I mean, I wanted people to love the book. And the only way to get them to love it is to try to make it good for them. So of course the audience has to be considered.

It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.

Because when an artist has to assert that her intended audience is all humans rather than those who happen to be of her particular gender or race, what she’s actually having to assert is the breadth and depth of her own humanity.

Forgiveness doesn't sit there like a pretty boy in a bar. Forgiveness is the old fat guy you have to haul up a hill.

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.