Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.

...I've just been feeling insecure since I was 20, and that's all I've been trying to express. Now the entire world is feeling insecure.

Even if there were two of me, I still couldn't do all that has to be done. No matter what, though, I keep up my running. Running every day is a kind of lifeline for me, so I'm not going to lay off or quit just because I'm busy. If I used being busy as an excuse not to run, I'd never run again. I have only a few reasons to keep on running, and a truckload of them to quit. All I can do is keep those few reasons nicely polished.

My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

But I found that the longer you teach, the more you feel like a total stranger to yourself

Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.