If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.

If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.

You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you.

It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.

The fingers on his flesh told him he was loved, that he had always been loved, and that the world was a place where above all else things that were good would find a way to burrow into you.

Most argument, and in fact most conflict, has nothing to do with the present. It's always about the past or the future. People can't agree on the details of what has happened or is going to happen. But we rarely know what has happened, and we never know what is going to happen. What is really at dispute is how we will deal with not knowing.

Do they hate the idea of her, because she's different from them, and that in this difference there might be some sort of inferiority or superiority that is hers or theirs, that in the end threatens the potential happiness of everyone?