Energy can't be destroyed, only converted into something different. So when a person dies, where does that energy go?

Don't pay back in kind, pay back in kindness. If someone does wrong by you, do right by them.

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to create all of this and to enjoy our family life, stepping away from all the fictional traumas and the dramas. If I write about family in crisis, then I won't have to live through it, I guess.

There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.

Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, your mind tumbling? When you think that no matter what happens to you for the rest of your life, you will remember every last detail of that one minute forever?

That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?