All of us, as we mature and grow up - if we're doing life right - we evolve.

She tried to think of what to say to make it all better again, or at least the way it was before she'd made her confession, though she didn't regret having confessed. Perhaps that was what had been wrong with her all along. Now that the lie wasn't between them anymore, maybe she could love him again.

Write like a motherfucker.

But compassion isn't about solutions. It's about giving all the love that you've got.

But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing what it feels like to be a selfish jackass first.

You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it's better to write a book that kind of sucks rather than no book at all, as you wait around to magically become Faulkner. No one is going to write your book for you and you can't write anybody's book but your own.

I’m a free spirit who never had the balls to be free.