Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.

I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been.

You've got to work with your mistakes until they look intended. Understand?

I’d like to go out in the front yard and shout something. “None of this is worth it!” That’s what I’d like people to hear.

I've done as many as 20 or 30 drafts of a story. Never less than 10 or 12 drafts.

He wondered if she wondered if he were watching her.

Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on.