We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Just because your doctor has a name for your condition, doesn't mean he knows what it is.

In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

The person I am in the company of my sisters has been entirely different from the person I am in the company of other people. Fearless, powerful, surprising, moved as I otherwise am only when I write.

They say ignorance is bliss.... they're wrong

I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."