I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get 20 or more drafts before I move on.

The word impossible contains the word possible' What's that-- some Zen thing?' I think Star Trek. Mr. Spock.

Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.

I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've always trusted it. Trust me now. There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to you. There's always a reason. We belong together.

Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows.