I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.

I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

The greatest griefs are silent.

The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.