"When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings."
"One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation."
"In fact, it was all I could do to stop myself from saying, 'I've always been a big fan of your work …"
"I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat."
"I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water."
"Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water."