“You have to be ill if you want to get better.”
“If you want things to change, you must change. If you want things to get better, you must get better.”
“Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do. To get something better, you know?”
“I like to think he's in a better place. And besides, when you get older, you want to have something to believe in.”
“Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth of the chained muse. It's like playing the guitar, or practicing taekwondo, or having sex. The more you do, the better you get. The better you get, the better it feels. The better it feels, the more you want to do.”
“That's the funny thing, she thought. You always want things to get better, but you never know how good you already have it.”