For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

Life: I'll never understand it.

It’s pretty thin, the wall separating healthy confidence and unhealthy Pride.

It's a question of attitude. If you really work at something you can do it up to a point. If you really work at being happy you can do it up to a point. But anything more than that you can't. Anything more than that is luck.

I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.

You don’t get it, do you?" I said. “It’s not a question of ‘what then’. Some people get a kick out of reading railroad timetables and that’s all they do all day. Some people make huge model boats out of matchsticks. So what’s wrong if there happens to be one guy in the world who enjoys trying to understand you?

Writing is fun - at least mostly. I write for four hours every day. After that I go running. As a rule, 10 kilometers (6.2 miles). That's easy to manage.