Our relationship to the environment matters, our relationship to animals matters, and our relationship to culture matters.

I desperately wish I had my tambourine with me now, because even after everything I'm still wearing heavy boots, and sometimes it helps to play a good beat

I usually write away from home, in coffee shops, on trains, on planes, in friends’ houses. I like places where there’s stuff going on that you can lift your eyes, see something interesting, overhear a conversation.

I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember

It is unrealistic to think you can have an inflexible identity that never has to give or take or make compromises.

You do not have to utter anything you do not want to utter,” I told her, and she said, “Then I would never utter another word again.” “You do not have to do anything that you do not want to do.” “Then I would never do anything again.

It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?