I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat.

But vegetarians can eat this...Because intestines aren't even meat, Liz. They're just sh$*.

I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue.

You know the old adage: Plant an expectation, reap a disappointment.

I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life.

I thought about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen.

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.