We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.

You fail only if you stop writing.

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

Life is about trying things to see if they work.

What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

A Witch is born out of the true hungers of her time,” she said. “I was born out of New York. The things that are most wrong here summoned me. ("Drink Entire: Against The Madness Of Crowds")