Inspiration never arrived when you were searching for it.

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.

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

The French would eat anything that couldn't outrun them.

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

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

The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself.