You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild. What is life for, if not for the living of it?

I do have trouble starting books. I have ideas that I have trouble starting to write. But I'm the kind of person who tends to finish everything she starts out of sheer stubbornness.

People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.

I have the feeling that I know who I am, only I'm not anymore.

When a daring idea first crosses one's mind, if it is to be realized in the future it is often appealing. Then, as the time for its execution comes nearer, one begins to dread that which had once been anticipated.

Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.

The worst things weren't outside of you.