When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.

Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.

The amount of horror one used to hear about in one village could be quite extreme. But one might not have heard about all the other villages' horrors at the same time.

Baseball is reassuring. It makes me feel as if the world is not going to blow up.

We're all taking on too much, we're all asking too much of ourselves. We're all wishing we could do more, and therefore just doing more.

When I quit all these things and said I didn't have any time, I meant I didn't have any time.