So often people tell me: you got me through this, you've really helped me. And I never realized that part of what I do is that I give people hope.

Feelings aren't sensible. Sometimes you fall in love with people who don't make sense. And the ones who do make sense turn out to be the wrong ones.

I think I'm very real as a person, and that comes across in my work.

Long-distance relationships are another way of avoiding intimacy.

I never met a chocolate I could not eat.

You don’t know how lucky you are, my dear. Don’t waste it with regrets of the places and people you have lost. You have a lifetime to fill, so many good times and good years and great people ahead of you. You must rush to meet it.

Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent and you feel those people filling your lives.