“What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive.”

“The minute you begin to do what you really want to do, it's really a different kind of life.”

“I wanted, then, to become what I most admired, what now seemed most real to me. I wanted to be that exalted, complicated presence in someone's life, the familiar body, the source of another's existence. But I knew what I wanted was not always what I needed.”

“The minute you choose to do what you really want to do,it's a different kind of life.”

“Don't envy those who seems having everything, they don't really have everything. They have what they want and live the life they want but they don't have what they really need.”

“What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.”