“I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then to rip the living shit out of it.”
“Being a failure at living your own life as best as you can is better than being a success living the life somebody else says you should live.”
“What I'm trying to describe is that it's impossible to get out of your skin into somebody else's.... That somebody else's tragedy is not the same as your own.”
“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.”
“The best way to cheer yourself is to cheer somebody else up.”
“That was when I found out that the best way in the world to make yourself feel better when you have hit bottom is to try to get somebody else to feel better. There are certain things in life that are truly worth knowing, and that is one of the big ones.”