Also consider that someday, when you’re dead and rotted, kids with their baby teeth will sit in their time-geography class and laugh about how stupid you were.

You can’t fool people into loving you.

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

A good story should change the way you see the world.

Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.

I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything.

Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can't deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can't be explained and understood.