Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.

The resting place of the mind is the heart.

The little fishing boat anchors right off the shore of Gili Meno. There are no docks here on this island. You have to roll up your pants, jump off the boat and wade in through the surf on your own power. There's absolutely no way to do this without getting soaking wet or even banged up on the coral, but it's worth all the trouble because the beach here is so beautiful, so special

Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have dedicated too much of my life to writing, and have therefore neglected other aspects of my being.

Indeed, when I came to Italy, I expected to encounter a certain amount of resentment, but have received instead empathy from most Italians. In any reference to George Bush, people only nod to Berlusconi, saying","We understand how it is - we have one, too.

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear.