“you get through terrible things trying to make them better for other people”

“I've been riding horses since I was eight. I've never ridden well. Still, there's nothing I'd rather do.”

“I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.”

“Some consider falling in love, getting married, and buying a house a success, while others consider just making it through one day a success.”

“There's three things I've seen in this world that seem to make a body happy or miserable. It's no money or health or any of those other things most people talk about. It's knowing where you fit in this world, being able to go after your dreams, and love.”

“Dance makes me better in all things. Dance makes me endure all things. Dance makes me a believer in taking what isordinary about myself and turning it into something extraordinary. I dance just because I can. It is important to tell you: If I can dance, so can you.”

“I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write for other reasons: to see more closely what it is they are thinking about, what they may be afraid of. Sometimes writers write to solve a problem, to answer their own question. All these reasons are good reasons. And that is the most important thing I'll ever tell you. Maybe it is the most important thing you'll ever hear. Ever.”