Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.

She figured if you weren't woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn't be eating them.

I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Life's one great lesson was: Do not care. Not caring was a person's real protection.

As pathetic as it was, she'd rather hold on to the possibility of something perfect than be hit with the reality of nothing much.

Love was more than blind. It was deaf and dumb, too. It was catatonic. It was vegetative.

I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.