“When it comes to the core of who we are, it takes incredible effort to shift more than one standard deviation from the mean of your life.”

“For some strange reason I get some of my brightest ideas on the toilet seat, with my clothes on.”

“Dreaming is easy. Creativity is a lot of work.”

“My son hit his head on a couch and pushed it away. He never went near that couch again. It is amazing what and 1 year old boy can teach you about life.”

“For every writer, there is a challenge of time that is only magnified in the solitude of the work.”

“If I knew what I know today, years ago, I wouldnt change a thing about anything. I would not have appreciated what I know today if it hadnt been for what I didnt know.”

“[H]iding how you really feel and trying to make everyone happy doesn't make you nice, it just makes you a liar.”

“Love is honesty. Love is a mutual respect for one another.”

“The fact that Ridge has been honest in his conversations with me is not something he did wrong. The fact that he has feelings for me also isnt wrong, when you know exactly how much hes fought those...”

“I don't care what you say to me. I care what you share with me.”

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone wont either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are...”

“Never knew what a friendship was, Never knew how to really love, You can't be what I need you to, & I don't know why I fuck with you”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”