I know I don't need him, but I think I want him.

Well, I'm a slow writer. For me, a good day is a page, maybe a page and a half. I'd love to be more efficient, but I am not.

[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial.

Disease is nature's revenge for our destructiveness.

It always helps me connect with characters, to think about what music they respond to

My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem.

That's just pain she said. It goes eventually. And when it's gone, there's no lasting memory. Not the worst of it anyway. It fades. Our minds aren't made to hold on to the particulars of pain the way we do bliss. It's a gift God gives us, a sign of His care for us.