Everything was fabulous, even our breakdowns.

If you have a structure beforehand, you're sort of stuffing your story into a pre-assembled box. You don't want that to happen. What you want in your writing is to have a sort of wildness that occurs. And then, out of the wildness, a structure emerges.

The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come.

Good days, they come around the oddest corners.

He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.

The luxury of age was the giving up of vanity.

Even if you're going to die, you might as well die pretty.