I would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come back with things I’ve thought and found all on my own— on my own, not through you.

He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mind.

[i]We were fighting so very hard and achieving so very little aside from staying alive. BUT THAT’S EVERYTHING, my father wrote to me, when I told him that in a letter.[/i]

She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.

… there’s a difference between having no one because you’ve chosen it and having no one because everyone has been taken away.

Humanity is mediocre. The majority of women are neither superior nor inferior to the majority ofmen. They are all equal. They all merit the same scorn.

A normal life? Now that’s the real fairytale." From UNDER MY SKIN

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

We are the product of our thinking, so it is important that we choose carefully where to focus our mental energy.

I learned I'm not a science writer. I'm not very good at describing how something is happening. I try to describe "So What?"

It's exciting to go from snowboarding to skateboarding because I get to start as the underdog again.

Will we act upon life, or will we merely be acted upon?

Getting everything you want has nothing to do with anything.

The problem with movies is that movies end and your life doesn't. This doesn't appear to cause any trouble, but it does cause confusion, which is almost as bad.

Your mission isn't a project to check off your list. It's a commitment to which to dedicate your life.