When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no.
Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.
Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
I've loved all of my time here.
Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
Writing is only the frosting on my cake. Im whole without it.
Without a notion of the transcendental, human beings would, indeed, be animals; however, only fools can be convinced of it, and only degenerates need such a conviction.
A lady never asks a gentleman to dance, or to go to supper with her.
It's angering that not everybody has signed this treaty to ban landmines. It's disgusting, it really is, because it is fact that (mines) hurt a high percentage of civilians. They're not effective in any other real way. They've enough weapons for war.
You don't know who you will fall in love with. You just don't. You don't control it. Some people have certain things, like, 'That's what I'm going for,' and I have a subjective version of that. I don't pressure myself. If you fall in love with someone, you want to own them—but really, why would you want that? You want them to be what you love. I'm much too young to even have an answer for that question.