Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with them. Dogs love us unconditionally, not for our bodies or bank accounts.

Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.

You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

A wedding isn't for the bride and groom, it's for the family and friends. The B. and G. are just props, silly stick figures with no more significance than the pink and white candy figures on the top of the cake.

All writers have strengths and weaknesses. I am terrified of being boring, so I write short, compressed stories that sometimes don't give a reader time to think about what they have read. I struggle to slow down.

When Tolstoy wrote that all happy families are alike, what he meant was that there are no happy families.