There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

"Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives."

When a regular person gets sick, they take an aspirin. When a writer gets sick, they take notes.

Writing is like sex, if it's difficult you're not doing it right.

You are permanent, but this life is not.

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.