'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.

In a whisper he began begging for—and, as the sun set, received—the concession people always beg for: a little more time.

The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.

(and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate as politicians give out promises and whores give out)

You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it.