“Don't you think you can right your wrongs, Laura? That you can make things better by trying to get back to everything you lost?”

“Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to the end of the damn thing. Accept imperfections. Get it finished and then you can go back. If you try to polish every sentence there's a chance you'll never get past the first chapter.”

“If you want to complain you don't have to look long: in most anything you can find something wrong. But if you want to ignite your inner light, try to find in everything something right.”

“When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can't get it all back but they will get as big a chunk out of you as they can.”

“Get your associates as fast as you can and then get a bachelors.""I don't want that. I want to work in TV.""Trust me, Laura. You'd be happier if you were an accountant.”

“I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.”