We have today and hopefully tomorrow to be the best version of ourselves.
Today is going to be free of the past. Today, the past can't hurt me.
I'm a semi-failed writer, but I'm a capital-F Failed musician.
It's important to write like your readers are brilliant.
My job as the novelist is to present the whole case, then the reader gets to render her verdict.
It's a beautiful aspect of narrative construction, hunting for the right images and metaphors to render our character's hearts/minds/souls as though they're ecosystems, full-fledged settings for a reader to inhabit like a place.