Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.
The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.
Depression is always in the details.
Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!
How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man.
Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.