Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.

She sang as if she was saving the life of every person in the room.

You are always someones favorite unfolding story

You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.

Everybody believes in chance.

I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being writers. Forgiveness, therefore, is key. I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing. Again and again throughout the course of my life I will forgive myself.

The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.