As a writer, you should have a sticky soul; the act of continually taking things in should be as much a part of you as your hair color.

One thing I have always been is too short. It's adorable when you're in junior high. After that, it's a pain in the ass for the rest of your life.

Never be afraid of doing the thing you know in your heart is right, even if others don't agree.

Ruth has friends like other people have wardrobes. I mean that there's someone for every occasion.

How important things had become, now that they were gone! I felt a sudden panic that I would soon forget everything.

When it's new and important, you have to rest in between times. And anyway, even when I like a person there is a weariness that comes. I can be with someone and everything is fine and then all of a sudden it can wash over me like a sickness, that I need the quiet of my own self. I need to unload my head and look at what I've got in there so far. See it. Think what it means. I always need to come back to being alone for a while.

I will come back as a little breeze. You will feel me on your face, and you will know that I am still listening. So you can still talk to me.