Why do we think the people on stage are the only ones having fun?

You can make your life so much larger simply be acknowledging everyone else's.

Maybe the biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we're the only ones suffering from it.

All peace-loving women shut up when they sense they have stepped onto Guy Turf. Guy Turf is a murky realm of ego and pride and chivalry and testosterone and heroism.

Dreams are matters of the heart, things that pull you along as if they have hooked you someplace deep inside.

I wanted to go to a place where I could think, really sink into my own imagination, or ride it, or drift along it, as in a balloon. The kind of place that probably all writers crave. The kind of place where the outside world is still and quiet and you get a chance to listen, to peer, to go inward

I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins.