Sometimes the best things in life are unexpected.

There was a strange kind of comfort in misunderstandings and differences that were old enough to have lost their teeth.

He found me when I was at my lowest point.

Yet the past has a will of its own, and you must learn to entertain it, because it will visit, invited or not.

Better to fail at what you love than succeed at what you hate. People have strange ideas about success ... too much to do with money, not enough to do with joy.

Why do you still feel the need to punish yourself for something that was out of your control?

For my money, there are no more fascinating, hard-working, vulnerable creatures on earth than writers. Every day, they lay their souls out there for public approval or rejection.