“This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.”

“Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.”

“But only people you care about can hurt you. That doesn't mean I love her. Hate is not the opposite of love; not caring is. And as long as I hate her, I still care about her, and she has the power to hurt me. To make me hate myself.”

“Progress is not about hating or destroying America, it is about loving and building the world, which can only come from healing our national dementia.”

“On this day I want to tell you about, which will be about a thousand years from now, there were a boy, a girl and a love story.”

“Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life.”