Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered. Be ruthless and refuse to do what people ask of you.

Getting away from being 'a good girl' is important because it's impossible to be a 'good girl' and a writer at the same time.

Nothing is as horrendous as imagining the times of happiness from an environment which is that of hell.

The stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.

I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.