From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.
I would die of lonely.
Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.
I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life.
I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've always trusted it. Trust me now. There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to...
Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom.Once you were thus convinced, you...
There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.
Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-r...
Intuition is seeing with the soul.
...any talent - whether to write songs or to write novels...came with the obligation to use it to the fullest of one's ability, with a fierce commitment barely distinguishable from neurotic obsession....
Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.
This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs and to help us realize t...
Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what.
Dogs, lives are short, too short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you're going to lose a dog, and there's going to be great anguish, so you live fully in the moment with her,...
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. —C. G. Jung
Grief can destroy you --or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you d...
I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning. As does death.
I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.