What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.

by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you believe that a person's past has nothing to do with his future. you think i am either a hero, or a monster. maybe knowning more about circumstances will make you think differently about me, but it won't change what happened twenty-eight years ago.

I don't believe in writer's block. Most of writer's block is having too much time on your hands. My mantra is that you can always edit a bad page; you can't edit a blank page.

If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.

I wonder if the conversations you've never had with someone count, if you've been over them a thousand times in your mind.

There is a curious thing that happens with the passage of time: a calcification of character... Change isn't always for the worst; the shell that forms around a piece of sand looks to some people like an irritation, and to others, like a pearl.

The problem with you is that you always see a glass of milk half empty instead of half filled.