“All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.”

“The bottom line is this: You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change it…If there is no moral question, there is no reason to write. I’m an old-fashioned writer and, despite the odds, I want to change the world”

“May you know the softness that comes from being well-loved.”

I look for you everywhere; small gestures made by all kinds of people in the street remind me of you, by their similarity as much as by their differences,

“Despite how open, peaceful, and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you as deeply as they’ve met themselves.”