...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.

And if you ever do a survey, you'll find that people prefer illusion to reality, ten to one. Twenty, even.

The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.

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

Autonomy is the whole thing; it's what unhappy people are missing. They have given the power to run their lives to other people.

Sometimes you are being interviewed by someone and you think, if I knew this person they'd be my best friend. Other times you're being interviewed by a complete jerk.

To have a reason to get up in the morning, it is necessary to have some kind of guiding principle. A belief of some kind