I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying it.

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

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.

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.

Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.