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.

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

If this was adulthood the only improvement she could detect in her situation was that she could now eat dessert without eating her vegetables.

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.

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

It had been fourteen years and I hadn't had anything published. I had 250 rejection slips. I got my first novel published and it was called Kinflicks. It turned out to be a best seller.