Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.

If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.