The truth will not necessarily set you free, but truthfulness will.
Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.
The first person who ever told me that happiness was work was this manic-depressive artist I knew when I was in my 20s. I was like, 'What are you talking about? Happiness just happens. That's even the root of that word. How could it be work?
A lot of women make choices based on how they saw their mother's choices working out, how they saw the choices of the women elders in their lives working out. There's some rebellion in that, but there's also some deep reflection.
Your heart is the size of your fist; keep loving, keep fighting.
I've never been socially outgoing, but I suspect I've gotten more and more ambivalent about making new friends. I'm irritated by how-do-you-do chit-chat, but that's how new relationships usually begin.
Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.
There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic. . . Just like rock climbing.
The character is a piece of fiction. You are yourself, however, and that makes you interesting, because you're alive and you're a human being.
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I'm not one of those people who sits at dinner on their iPhone all night. I'm either working or I'm not. I've gone down that path where you sleep with your phone beside the bed and send an email just before you put your head down and check everything again when you wake up, and I don't like it.