I had never taken creative writing classes. Hadn't even considered it.

Nothing changes what alreaday happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't.

Our worst pain is confined within our own skin.

I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.

We are not strong enough to stand up against endless grief, And yet pain is the constant drone of life. So if we are to have any happiness at all, it is only in the passing instant.

One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business.

We mark some days as fair, some as foul, because we do not see that the character of every day as identical