I've got forward momentum. There's no virtue in it. It's just a balancing act. I don't dare stop.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.

For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.

I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

Bleeding ulcers run in my family, we give them to each other.