Don't let go of your strength or your beauty. It was given to you by God.

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.

Humans are designed to seek comfort and order, and so if they have comfort and order, they tend to plant themselves, even if their comfort isn't all that comfortable. And even if they secretly want for something better.

Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

It's possible to do both as a writer - to engage and have a family and all that good stuff - and I chose not to for the sake of the career.

I think life is staggering and we're just too used to it.