and she's a nurse. do you know how hard nursing school is? it's like medical school. so she's obviously smart.

You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the spool.

Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.

I could write another collection of personal essays from what has happened to me in the last year alone. I don't seek out my material - it finds me. I am magnetic, somehow.

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

This is how you survive the unsurvivable, this is how you lose that which you cannot bear to lose, this is how you reinvent yourself, overcome your abusers, fulfill your ambitions and meet the love of your life: by following what is true, no matter where it leads you.

We haven't slept together. But we've napped