I have learned that the consequences of our past actions are always interesting; I have learned to view the present with a forward-looking eye.

It was a sound like someone trying not to make a sound.

It seems to me that people who don’t learn as easily as others suffer from a kind of learning disability—there is something different about the way they comprehend unfamiliar material—but I fail to see how this disability is improved by psychiatric consultation. What seems to be lacking is a technical ability that those of us called ‘good students’ are born with. Someone should concretely study these skills and teach them. What does a shrink have to do with the process?

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

This is a writer’s lesson: To learn that the sounds that we imagine can be the clearest, loudest sounds of all.

No one but me ever put a hand on me to feel that baby. No one wanted to put his ear against it and listen...You shouldn't have a baby if there's no one who wants to feel it kick or listen to it move.

Don't forget this, too: Rumors aren't interested in the unsensational story; rumors don't care what's true.