I notice when I’m on these trips, I read like mad. It’s the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!
Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they’re handed, and that seems courageous to me.
Ours was not a political household, when I was growing up.
Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.
Autonomy is the whole thing; it’s what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.
The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.
Feeling is not selective, I keep telling you that. You can’t feel pain, you aren’t gonna feel anything else, either.
Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.
Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.
For me being depressed means you can spend all day in bed, and still not get a good night’s rest.
Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they’d be my best friend. Other times you’re being interviewed by a complete jerk.
People that keep stiff upper lips find that it’s hard to smile.
Writers don’t write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.
The ‘creator’ and the ‘editor’ – two halves of the writer whole – should sleep in separate rooms.
Some people have an unrealistic expectation when it comes to getting published; the fact is most publishers will turn down your work which is why you need to be persistent.
It’s always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that’s the person I’m going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it’s there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain’t me.
My success is not who I am.
It’s true that every day away from work requires two more days to get back into it.
I’ve never been one to tear the social fabric.
Make peace with what is.
Jesus but people got weird when they lived alone.