Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.

I identify with the characters very closely. At the same time that I`m outside, writing, I`m also inside, experiencing, and it can be very unsettling.

I am in trouble here. This woman is not right.

This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.

The color white is the absence of memory.

The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.