By your choice dwell you now in the world which you have created. What you hold in your heart shall be true, and what you most admire, that shall you become.

The big thing about writing is three commands: Have fun. Don't think. Don't care.

Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst.

Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.

No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.

Those who win are those who think they can.

In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.