It's much better to be apart and wish you were together than to be together and wish you were apart.

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

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

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

But the writing life, it turned out, was difficult. It wasn't like you could sit down and flip a switch and crank on the ventilation system. Sometimes it didn't work, and sometimes you couldn't even find the switch.

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

It's much better to be apart and wish you were together than to be together and wish you were apart.