Fear begets fear. Power begets power. I willed myself to beget power. And it wasn't long before I actually wasn't afraid.

There isn't a thing to eat down there in the rabbit hole of your bitterness except your own desperate heart.

So much of what I've learned, so much of what's good in my life, was learned because something bad happened, or from making the wrong decision. Through bad decisions I learned how to find the ways to make the right ones.

Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith. Be true blue. You are a writer because you write. Keep writing and quit your bitching. Your book has a birthday. You don't know what it is yet.

You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.

In your twenties you're becoming who you're going to be and so you might as well not be an asshole.

The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.