Perhaps everyone has a story that could break your heart.
Everything we do, I'd imagine, influences everything we will do.
Water can be a symbol of purification, to stand naked before someone a sign of truth, of nothing to hide. - Nick Flynn
I get inspired by my friends, and if a friend is a writer, that is even deeper.
That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.
There is a physics to the world, which non-fiction has a contract to stand in awe of, otherwise it becomes completely self-centered and ego-driven, which is the death of a memoir.