If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.

I'm a novelist, I'm not an activist. I'm not a non-fiction writer, I'm not a journalist. I'm not a foodie, I'm not even really an animal person, or an environmentalist. I did the best I could with this, but it's not who I am.

The question, I've come to think, is not what inspires one to change, but what inspires one to remain changed.

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.

You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of.

She extended a hand that I didn't know how to take, so I broke its fingers with my silence.