“We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.”
“Anyone who ever bet against you was wrong. Don’t let their opinion blind you from your reality. You were not meant to live their life; LIVE yours!”
“Worry was my mother's mechanic, her mechanism for engaging with the machinery of living. Worry was an anchor for her, a hook, something to clutch on to in the world. Worry was a box to live inside of, worry a mechanism for evading the present, for re-creating the past, for dealing with the future.”
“Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.”
“Worry about staying alive first. Then worry about how you're going to live.”