I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

I do remember what I said. The promise. To protect her. If I'd done that ... even if I didn't make it, you wouldn't've had to jump. I want you to know I did save you. Not when it counted, of course. But after that. Every night after that. I'd see it all again, do something different. Faster or more clever, you know? Dozens of times, lots of different ways ...Every night I save you.

Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best.

Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sauté it, whatever. MAKE.

Even in the darkness, every color can be found. And every day of rain brings water flowing to things growing in the ground.

The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it.

You do not want a war. You have known violence, you have suffered loss, but you have seen nothing of war. War is not just the business of death; it is the anti-thesis of life. Hope, tortured and flayed, reason, dismembered, grinning at its limbs in its lap. Decency, raped to death... You will be a murderer and more.