I am a great believer in variations on the routine.

I could lay here and read all night. I am not able to fall asleep without reading. You have the time when your brain has nothing to do so it rambles. I fool my brain out of that by making it read until it shuts off. I just think it is best to do something right up until you fall asleep.

You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.

When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy.

You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and you will generally fool yourself into forgetting you started with one solitary season out of your life.

It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.

Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.