My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.

There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all those Swedish farmwives from beyond the grave who were like, 'Go! Go to Naples! Eat more pizza! Go to India, ride an elephant! Do it! Swim in the Indian Ocean. Read those books. Learn a language.'

You have now reached infatuation’s final destination—the complete and merciless devaluation of self.

Take care of the problems now, or else you'll just have to suffer again later when you scew everything up the next time. And that repetition of suffering - that's hell. Moving out of that endless repetition to a new level of understand - there's where you'll find heaven.

Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies

Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)

That’s the thing about a human life-there’s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.