Then I thought, "No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.

Talking about my fears to others feeds it.

That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said.

We know a thing by its opposite corollary; hot by having experienced cold; good by having decided what is bad; love by hate.

If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.