A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

Everyone may be ordinary, but they're not normal.

The problem was, I think, that the places I fit in were always falling behind the rimes.

In real life things don’t go so smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the person who knocks at our door is, more likely than not, a messenger bearing bad news.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.

Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.