For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me — as a girl and later as a woman — to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.

There is no life without death. That is the true meaning of yin and yang

I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.

Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.

When people are alive they love, when they die, they keep loving. If love ends when person dies, that is not real love

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

People write to me all the time, and I write back.