I'm not going to get involved in a debate with you. Just remember this: the gods give, and the gods take away. Even if you are not aware of having been granted what you posses, the gods remember what they gave you. They don't forget a thing. You should use the abilities you have been granted with the utmost care.

But what seems like a reasonable distance to one person might feel too far to somebody else.

If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.

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

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.