I can supply the thereness. You can’t ask what’s not there to give.

You wouldn’t maintain a house like that’ you’d feet it and water it. You’d have to give it nourishment and love it to keep it alive and healthy.

It’s unimaginable to me that I wouldn’t write, but it’s very imaginable that I won’t write for a little while.

You never, never ask a young man to take you anywhere, Molly. It’s cheap. It sounds desperate. It sounds like you can’t get a date any other way. With your height and those big breasts, you’re always going to have to be careful not to look desperate. A real beauty can get away with it, maybe, but the rest of us ordinary girls have to be very, very careful not to look desperate.

I don’t know if I would do sequels. I almost feel like when I’m done with them, they’re going to have to find their own way.

Anger is its own excuse and its own reward...

I don’t think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.

Didn’t I say I’d always be your same stars? If you get to missing me, just look up.

I think that sometimes the great changes in our lives, the ones that divide time, happen so deep down and silently that we don't even know when they occur......It frequently happens that the seasons of the greatest change are the times that feel the most tranquil, the most suspended, the most...timeless.

Anger is its own excuse and its own reward ...