I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.

Why didn't he say goodbye? I gave myself a bruise. Why didn't he say 'I love you'?

I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.

When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything moved me. A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.

Just to be a functioning adult in the world, we develop all of these layers of protection. When we see homeless people, we don't cry, even though homeless people probably deserve our tears - you know, it's a horrible thing.

It was getting hard to keep all the things I didn't know inside me.

A map such as that one is worth many hundreds, and as luck will have it, thousands of dollars. But more than this, it is a remembrance of that time before our planet was so small. When this map was made, I thought, you could live without knowing where you were not living.