Learn to write by writing

Some people need a huge amount of attention, and they are worthy of that attention, and they're still exhausting.

People seem able to love their dogs with an unabashed acceptance that they rarely demonstrate with family or friends. The dogs do not disappointment them, or, if they do, the owners manages to forget about it quickly. I want to learn to love people like this, the way I love my dog, with pride and enthusiasm and a complete amnesia for faults. In short, to love others the way my dog loves me.

Sometimes if there's a book you really want to read, you have to write it yourself.

Maybe there would be a bad outcome for some of the others, but no one was going to shoot a soprano.

Coming back is the thing that enables you to see how all the dots in your life are connected, how one decision leads you another, how one twist of fate, good or bad, brings you to a door that later takes you to another door, which aided by several detours--long hallways and unforeseen stairwells--eventually puts you in the place you are now.

Love is a rebellious bird that no one can tame