It takes a lot of time to be a good junkie or alcoholic - you spend hours getting the necessary supplies, then imbibing, then recovering, rinse and repeat. That's like eighteen hours of a day. And assuming you get out of that lifestyle before it macerates your heart, you have that Junkie Tunnel Vision, except now you get to use it for something positive: you know how to work tirelessly for one thing. Instead of using that tunnel vision to get high, I use it to make art.

My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.

It was important to buy into the fact that the nine hundred pages an end-reader never sees are just as valuable as the ones that are bound and placed on the shelf.

No matter what we've done, no matter the disappointments and sullied blunders, today is the opportunity to do right by ourselves.

I struggle with staying clean every day, and what really keeps me from doing something stupid is my daughter.

In my life the right question is simply this: What can I do to be happy today?

Today is going to be free of the past. Today, the past can't hurt me.