I convinced myself that sadness and compromise were the ways of the world.

I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.

People are terrified. A lot of them are in relationships that aren't satisfying, and if you tell them they can change their life, they get really scared.

I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.

Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?

At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore.