“What I want to know it whether we're supposed to change or just accept who we are?”

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change. The courage to change the things I can. And the wisdom to know the difference. I still didn't know the difference.”

“I hadn't been able to trust since the age of four. I was torn between wanting to be cradled and telling the world to go fuck itself, and those were opposite sides of the same coin.”

“[I]t's the child writer who has figured out, early on, that writing is about saving your soul.”

“Just remember that this relationship is based on mutual trust and respect, so never reveal your true self.”

“...but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.”

“No matter how many compromises were made along the way, no matter what happens in the future, a book is a thing to behold.”