I remembered that, and, remembering that, I remembered everything.

I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.

But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.

I make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.

Words save our lives, sometimes.

You get on with your own life. Lettie gave it to you. You just have to grow up and try and be worth it.

They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.

It's easier to sit there and say you don't like feminists because they don't have a sense of humor.

Doing a budget means learning an ancient and powerful word: NO.

I decided sitcoms weren't for me.

If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the solution you're coming up with fits.

Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.

Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers.

I believe the divine is part of the world, not in a pantheistic way but by way of the movement of the Spirit.

I think you have an obligation to be an optimist. Because if you're not, nothing will change

Nothing gets a bigger laugh than when you refer to things like ethics or human rights.

Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.