The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.

We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils.

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

Hello Frances, I have just been to health class, and I was wondering how your feminine parts were developing.

If you think I'm annoying and preachy now, you should have known me in grade school.

It all meant something. Until it didn't.

Suffering is only suffering if it’s done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.