Just let your hand drop; and let fate decide for you.

Since we do operate in a binary world, if there's something that cannot be this or that, it drives us crazy.

I often need physical gesture to balance dialogue. If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with his hand or foot, I can look up and study people and find compelling gestures that I can harvest. Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.

Of all the priceless objects left behind, this is what we rescue. These artifacts. Memory cues. Useless souvenirs. Nothing you could auction. The scars left from happiness.

I really believe it's the moments we can't talk about that become the rest of our lives. It's the moments we can't process by telling a story that destroy us in the end.

The world will always punish the few people with special talents the rest of us don’t recognize as real.

You can't be beautiful," Brandy says about a thousand times, "until you feel beautiful.