There are a lot of things that we crave, there are a lot of things that would make us perhaps more fulfilled in a sensory way that we just say no to.

I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

Life is precious, so I ought to spend my days, you know, making sandwiches for homeless people and tending to the elderly in hospice care. Life is precious, so I should give everything away, except that I live in the world. And in the world, I actually have needs and wants, and I value my needs and wants. And I live in the world, and I can't just go make sandwiches every day because I also have to take kids to school. I also have to, you know, write books because that's my livelihood.

...people with nothing to declare carry the most.

She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release.

Everything is to protect you. I exist in case you need to be protected.