If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.

I hum some secret place into being, thinking of this other me, the one that only I can see, a girl called She, who is not We, a girl who I will never be.

Write,' she said, 'as if you'll never be read. That way you'll be sure to tell the truth.

I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.

Art isn't a product. It's an experience

The city, no matter how small, is corrupt and unrepentant, while the sun shines brighter in the country, making people more wholesome.

the only thing left to do is love

If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead.

How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.

Winning the lottery is winning the lottery. It's highly unlikely and very unusual.

And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.

Spend unbroken chunks of time with the most important people in your life.

Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.

Chaos breeds life; Order creates habit.

I have always been a grumbler. I am designed for the part - sagging face, weighty underlip, rumbling, resonant voice. Money couldn't buy a better grumbling outfit.

But even the law cannot be in your bedroom at night.

One of the most beautiful ways you can give is giving of yourself and your time.

We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

The word 'home', it seemed, once learned, was a hard one to forget.