there is no best and no worst, ...those judgments have no real meaning because there is only what is

The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.

Stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.

If I ever end up being the kind of person who has one kid and seven bedrooms. Do me a favor and shoot me.

At least it was instant. At least there wasn't any pain." I knew he was only trying to help, but he didn't get it. There was pain. A dul endless pain in my gut that wouldn't go away even when I knelt on the stingingly frozen tile of the bathroom, dry-heaving.

She had the kind of fingers you want to interlace with your own.

We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.