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

The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.

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

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

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.

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.

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