With my friends, I don't feel pressure to be someone other than who I am.

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

Haven't lost your sense of humor after all but your sense of identity is what seems to have been misplaced. No. Wrong. You don't lose what you never had.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

...let the emotional weight of a scene rest on the dialogue wherever possible. This is the easy way to avoid overinterpretation, which seems to be what turns a scene from sympathetic to sentimental.

I think living the blessed life is the luck of the draw.