Clarity is the most important thing to me - in thinking - and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible.

Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wishes were not true or possible; and the exacting of the punishment you agreed to when you knew you would break the contract of your life.

…There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the necessity of the thing itself, the action that must be performed. There is simply an acknowledgment that we will do the thing in question, and then the thing is done, often at considerable personal cost. " "What goes into these decisions? What tiny factors, invisible, in the jutting edges of personality and circumstance, contribute to this inevitability?

I don't think anything needs to happen in a book.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

Clarity is the most important thing to me - in thinking - and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible.

I'm clearer now in what I want to say, and I know better how to say just that.