I believe in the goodness of imagination.

Our earlier lives aren't wrong, they are just pre-construction. Our lives are meant to unfold, to evolve, and that's good. The only wrong thing, perhaps, is permanently hesitating on the verge of courage, which would prevent this process from taking place.

Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts.

You have to know when to prod and when to be quiet, when to let things take their course.

We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection.

If you aren't giving people something to talk about, you've become too dull.

And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.