There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.

You write one book and you're ready for fame and fortune. I don't know that people are spending the time and attention on learning how to write-which takes years. Everybody sees the success stories.

Everything happens for a reason, but that doesn't mean there's a point.

The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same.

I think you'd best make your peace with the past since you've come this far. I think you know by now that you won't go back again.

Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them." "I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly. "Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied.