I don't work. I keep telling people I'm unemployed. And I don't wash dishes, and I don't wash clothes, and I don't clean my house. Somebody else does that.

I couldn't bear to have people mispronounce my name. But the person I was was this person who was called Chloe.

Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want.

No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies in the fact that you knew it was there for you all along.

Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation.

Intimacy is extremely important to me and I want it to be extremely important to the readers.

They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations.