I think the biggest, saddest thing that happens in our lives is that we just don't embrace the things that could make it better because they don't seem to make it better at any given moment or we can't decide how to get across the aisle to that person.

There's people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.

I think I'd been limiting myself in some ways just writing in first person all the time.

I'm not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn't have to be as lonely as it is.

I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can't see how to do it.