I feel like so much of what I'm doing is making a road where there is no road and inviting people on that road with me. It's scary. It's scary, but I can't listen to the voices that are saying form is the only way, or that there is only this kind of form or that kind of form.

That's what makes best friends. It's not whether or not you live on the same block or go to the same school, but how you feel about each other in your hearts.

Mama was always saying I was a brain snob, that I didn't like people who didn't think. I didn't know if that was snobby. Who wanted to walk around explaining everything to people all the time?

I couldnt be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because Im pretty optimistic.

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

You can't always be pushing people away. Someday nobody'll come back.