I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.

Love is a helium-based emotion; Love always takes the high road.

In some ways, blogging is like drinking - it gives a person permission to be a total asshole.

He was raised without a proper diagnosis.

And of course, the answer came to me in the same way Jesus comes to those who drink in trailers: as an epiphany.

your mind is like an unsafe neighborhood; don't go there alone.

The dark side of blogging is, of course, people can be (and are) just savage and uncivilized, deeply cruel and fully unaccountable.