The biggest advice is being true to what you want to do. Don't worry if other people understand it or don't understand it. If what you're doing has merit, it will find its way.

That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.

The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.

It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.

He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or would ever care enough about him to really find out what he was like and what his dreams were. He was an outcast, a creature somehow vastly different from all other people, an object of scorn and derision, an outsider, secretly loathed and ridiculed by everyone who met him, even by those few who professed to love him.

the worst happens when you least expect it

Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.