We just had a near-life experience!

The problem in this case was you can't be a middle-aged virgin in America without something being wrong with you. People can't conceive of a virtue in someone else that they can't conceive in themselves. Instead of believing you're stronger, it's so much easier to imagine you're weaker.

For the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be.

Ideas come at any moment -- except when you demand them. Most ideas come while I'm physically active, at the gym, with friends, gardening, so I always carry pen and paper. My first draft is always written in longhand. But once the first dozen chapters, more like short stories, are written, then momentum builds until I can't leave the project until it's done.

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

You can say anything if enough people will listen.

It's okay to cry as long as you're faking it.