“Of all the Wonders in the World, the greatest wonder of all, was sharing it with you.”

“The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.”

“It was time that I looked on our relationship for what it was - a beautiful struggle; one that we ultimately lost, but it was wonderful and all-consuming while it lasted. I couldn’t hate him for that.”

“This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values....”

“Greatest risk of all: to be vulnerable, to allow others to see us as we really are”

“The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life.”

“Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you.”