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

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

The world is a big place," he said, "but so is the inside of an apartment!

Everyone is always in need of something that another person can give, be it undivided attention, a kind word or deep empathy. There is no better use of a life than to be attentive to such needs.

I think it's very pretty. Can it be pretty if no one thinks it's pretty? I think it's pretty. If you're the only one? That's pretty pretty. And what about the boys? Don't you want them to think you're pretty? I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.

We live in a world made up more of story than stuff. We are creatures of memory more than reminders, of love more than likes.

Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was