"Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes."

"Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song."

"Life is accepting what is and working from that."

"I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel."

"One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work."