Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it.

Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.

I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.

My writing has always been met with derision or dismissal.

Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.

The garden has taught me to live, to appreciate the times when things are fallow and when they're not.

So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us this is fiction or non-fiction, that this is history or this is a novel, are often useless.