It's good to try stuff. I wrote a book that I threw away, and I think I just wrote it so I could try stuff in it and not be scared

The very best parts of me go into my writing, it is the best version of myself, and I don't think it's hubristic to believe that that's worth something, worth someone else's time. It's the most I have to offer the world.

I love reading books that you can't put down, and they just take you over for a night or a weekend.

I'd love to be able to write crazy epic plots. I'm working on it.

And we all get mired in the bullshit, the personality quirks, the personality disorders (ours and everyone else's), the jealousy, the disappointment, the blocks, the financial struggle, our egos, I do it too, I do it too, but if you can't remember it is all about the work and nothing else then I can't help you and you can't help yourself and you will lose. I promise you. You will lose.

Wouldn't that be nice if we could all afford to just freely pursue our dreams?

I don't pretend for a second that I'm that great of a person on a day-to-day basis. I'm a deeply flawed human.