successful parenting was like log rolling, and she'd often landed in the drink.

I wrote for twelve years and collected 250 rejection slips before getting any fiction published, so I guess outside reinforcement isn't all that important to me.

Depression was a very active state really. Even if you appeared to an observer to be immobilized, your mind was in a frenzy of paralysis. You were unable to function, but were actively despising yourself for it.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

The only obvious advantage to being an adult is that you can eat your dessert without haying sampled the vegetables.

Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.

If you kept moving, you never had to mourn what you were leaving behind.