We live on top of the created world, I think to myself, not in it.

I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.

We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.

If you want to bond with your friends, do something very hard with them, something that you won't be able to do alone.

I started Storyline after I'd accomplished all my goals and still wasn't happy. I'd become a New York Times bestselling author, which was my goal from high school, and yet I was less happy after accomplishing my goals than I was before.

The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.