what I love is slowness. Slow people, slow reading, slow traveling, slow eggs, and slow love. Everything good comes slow.

Like the bodies of dancers or athletes, the minds of readers are genuinely happy and self-possessed only when cavorting around, doing their stretches and leaps and jumps to the tune of words.

I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now?

In books I found explicitly, flamboyantly, everything censored in life.

Getting away from being 'a good girl' is important because it's impossible to be a 'good girl' and a writer at the same time.

Reading. Reading was the stable backdrop against which my life was played.

How are we to spend our lives, anyway? That is the real question. We read to seek the answer, and the search itself--the task of a lifetime--becomes the answer.

Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered. Be ruthless and refuse to do what people ask of you.

Nothing is as horrendous as imagining the times of happiness from an environment which is that of hell.

Parables, yes. We here are to lead life with woe. Tasting bitter.the Tai Chi instructor

The only thing that stops you from your success is the fear of the unkown

Sure, I like ice cream, but when you keep a healthy lifestyle, it's: Do you prefer sweets and crappy food, or do you prefer to have a nice body? It depends on what you want more.

Boundary, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.

And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.

Faithfulness and sincerity first of all.

Even the bands I dig don't have a history of attaining mass consumption.

What the King dreams, the Hand builds.

Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sickbed certainly forebodes death.

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there’s a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction.

If you can raise the level of effort and performance in those around you, you are officially a leader.