How inevitable it is; we step into an ordinary moment and never come out again.

I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.

I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have.

This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.

Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be.

Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive.

The essence of intelligence was to know when, or if, to expose even the heart's deep need for instruction.