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

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.

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.

The human organism has only so much energy at its disposal. If you divert a great deal of it into any one channel, you can expect the others to collapse or atrophy. If you squander your vital energies on your emotional life, as you have been doing, plan to be physically and mentally bankrupt, as it were.

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.

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