Jump to the day we'll all be dead and none of this will matter. Jump to the day another house will stand here and the people living there won't know we ever happened.

I can manage my own pain. I can drink. I can go to the doctor and get a prescription. I can exercise. I can write a story about it. I've done it a million times! But I don't want to see the people I love tortured and suffering.

The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.

You realize you have no control over how you're perceived.

I'm not so much a good friend as I'm the savior who wants you to worship him forever.

He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.

If you worry about disaster all the time, that's what you're going to get.