Maybe it was the same with people: if you studied them,you'd see new and different things. But would you like what you saw? Did it depend on who was doing the looking?

Read a lot, live your life, and listen and watch, so that your mind fills up with millions of images.

I don't want to because boys don't write poetry. Girls do.

Life is like a bowl of spaghetti. Every once in a while, you get a meatball.

I am drawn to the ways in which we are shaped by people and by place.

Young children are naturally so philosophical. They ask: 'What is real? What is truth?' They have to learn it; they don't automatically know it. To them, it's a game. You can study this for years in college, and yet you probably asked it when you were four or five years old.

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.